The Dorms

YAPC NA admin at yapcna.org
Mon Apr 15 20:51:14 PDT 2013


http://blog.yapcna.org/post/48097285256/the-dorms

We’ve had a lot of requests for information on the dorms. I apologize
we haven’t provided more. My first dorm experience was in Chicago
2008. The rooms were miserable. Someone broke the water chillers
and/or turned them off. Because it was summer in Chicago, nobody had a
priority to fix the problem. The rooms were miserable and the group
showers were less than great.

But it was a great time and I remember it fondly. The dorms had this
big open area where all the dorm halls joined and everyone hung out. I
remember Adam Kennedy arguing with Schwern for “new_ok”. Thus the
change log entry: “Adam Kennedy bribed me to add new_ok().  The price
was one DEFCON license key.” We hung out on really uncomfortable
chairs, watched bad movies, hacked, and played Zombie Flux with 15
people at one time.

We do understand that the dorms are not just a “Cheap option for
YAPC”. We’ve tried very hard this year to do what we could, but one
bad break after the other has reset the process on us. Here’s what it
looks like now:

Somehow in spite of weekly inquiries, we’ve now been told that our
submissions were not received and we need to start the 2 week process
over to get the approval. This means we won’t hear anything until the
end of the month or 1 month out from the conference. There is still a
chance they’ll say NO. This makes it a little risky for us to
recommend you wait for the Dorms.

If the dorms are allocated, they will be in the San Jacinto Residence
Hall. There will be no more than 50 rooms made available at ~$70 for 2
twins.

People have different housing needs when they come to YAPC. Some need
to have the cheapest housing possible. Some frequent travelers prefer
the hotel chain they usually use. Others just want to be in the hotel
where everyone else plans to be. We’re very hesitant to recommend
anything we’ve not checked out. At the moment, YAPC has reserved a
block of 50 rooms at the Double Tree, which is very near the
conference. This might be a good choice for that group of folks. If we
fill this up soon, there’s a chance, we might be able to book more
rooms.

You can also review and update Who is Staying Where on the wiki. This
should help you find where people are going to be. We’ll provide an
update on the dorms by next Wednesday one way or the other so everyone
knows where things stand.


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