On January 29, 2014 2:15:15 PM PST, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
>But the Largest US Cities are generally not on the coast (which does not make >your statement wrong). Of the 7 cities listed, only two of them are not international ports, with container ships arriving/departing on a daily basis. >In fact, if I list the top 20, there is a very small number on the coast. More than 40% of the US population lives in either BosWash or SanSan. (Something else they have in common, is that both are one earthquake away from being completely obliterated from the map.) >smallest average travel distance, you pick the middle of Ohio (Columbus, >Ohio). Shortest distance does not correlate with "easiest to get to". SanSan residents will go through Atlanta. BosWash residents will go through either Detroit or Chicago. Fly-over country residents will probably go through both Denver and Chicago. >1. Easy / cheap air fare to the location >2. Affordable lodging and food Affordable lodging means going during the off season. Cheap airfare means getting either a 90 day or 180 day APEX fare. Also consider that rail is a viable alternative in BosWash. ### Something I've missed in the conversation is: * Roughly how many people are the organizers planning for? * How many days will it last? * Of those that might be going, is there a geographic centre that might be more appropriate? A while ago I saw something that implied that there was an extremely large cluster of LibO users in Puget Sound. jonathon -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
