Amarok/Archives/Meeting2007/Locations

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

The Good:

• Recent labs (P4 3.2Ghz HT / 2Gb RAM / SATA Bring-your-own-drive / PXE)
• About 30 computers per lab
• Huge internet backbone
• Everyone gets a public IP address
• Projectors for presentations, and Wii (modded with all games:P) party !
• Hosted in a college (Maisonneuve's College www.cmaisonneuve.qc.ca)
• Near a subway station, access to the entire city for cheap, with a weekly pass
• Warm weather in summer ... Pool party at Paleo's place !
• Would be possible to stay at Paleo's place too, with tents.
• Else, there are a bunch of cheap hostel.
• What else ?

The Bad

• Only Paleo is nearby, and I'm not even THAT important for the meeting (Only taking care of server stuff)

Boston

The Good

• MIT probably has some computers; more IP addresses then China
• We can volunteer Jeff to hook us up with a computer lab. lfranchi won't be there, but he might also be able to reserve us a lab and space.
• Foreboy, Hydrogen, Jeff are all nearby

The Bad

• Fairly expensive (probably still cheaper then Europe)

Glasgow

The Good

• Akademy 30th June to 7th July 2007
• cool to hang out with other KDE folks, see some talks
• cheap airline flight for all european devs
• William Wallace
• The English

Good or bad?

• funding from KDE e.V. would either be easier (they actually had money left over last time) or more problematic

  seems like we could apply as a group, point out that we have ~$6000 that we'd be willing to spend ourselves (matching?)

• not sure if the laptopless would have computers (those who attended past akademy's fix this)

The Bad

• The British Pound (two USD per pound!)

Belgium

The Good

• Beer and chocolate.
• Beer
• Chocolate
• Can be organised by Bart and Wendy, with help from KDE-NL

The Bad

• Need a good location for both accommodation and computer labs. Have both, just not very close together. --Bart--