From jkeenan at pobox.com  Wed May  3 08:08:25 2017
From: jkeenan at pobox.com (James E Keenan)
Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 11:08:25 -0400
Subject: Parking at conference
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On 04/26/2017 10:31 AM, Richard Siddall via yapc wrote:
> There are also a very limited number of multi-day parking spaces at a
> few of the Washington Metro stations (see the Metro web site for which
> ones).  You can park your car there and use the Metro to get around.  I
> believe you need a Metro card to exit the parking lot.  It's much less
> expensive than parking at a hotel, but you have the additional cost of
> the trips to and from the station where you parked your car.
>
> Since the multi-day parking can fill up, you may want to have a backup
> plan for parking.
>
>     Richard.
>
> Joshua Turcotte via yapc wrote:
>> There are quite a few parking garages (and a few open-to-the-sky lots
>> a few
>> blocks west) in the vicinity, but the PTO has two multi-story garages
>> attached by walkway to the main building on either side (east and west.)
>>  Both cost money but max out at $10 a day, which is very tame for the
>> D.C.
>> area where $25+ is not unusual.  I can attest to the fact that the
>> west-side garage (at least) has electric car charging stations as well
>> (free to charge.)  I've not been in the east, so not sure if that is
>> mirrored there or not.
>>

Could someone transfer these details to the wiki?

https://github.com/dcbpw/tpc-2017-dc/wiki/Parking-Near-Conference-Center

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

From jkeenan at pobox.com  Wed May  3 08:12:25 2017
From: jkeenan at pobox.com (James E Keenan)
Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 11:12:25 -0400
Subject: TPC::NA::2017 Wiki; Arrival Dinner
Message-ID: <509b98c9-706e-0db8-3d41-8a5a833fe462@pobox.com>

I have opened the wiki pages below and invite you to plenish and 
replenish their content.

https://github.com/dcbpw/tpc-2017-dc/wiki/Hotels-and-Motels-near-Alexandria-Virginia

https://github.com/dcbpw/tpc-2017-dc/wiki/Where-People-Are-Staying

https://github.com/dcbpw/tpc-2017-dc/wiki/Arrivals-and-Departures

https://github.com/dcbpw/tpc-2017-dc/wiki/Parking-Near-Conference-Center

Dave Rolsky has (of course!) already started a page for the 
vegan-friendly Alt Arrival Dinner:

https://github.com/dcbpw/tpc-2017-dc/wiki/Alt-Arrival-Dinner

But we need suggestions for the general Arrival Dinner.

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

From joshua.eric.turcotte at gmail.com  Thu May  4 17:43:08 2017
From: joshua.eric.turcotte at gmail.com (Joshua Turcotte)
Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 20:43:08 -0400
Subject: Parking at conference
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	<61e0c900-614d-c65e-fd0b-267f211c6dbc@elirion.net>
	<bfa34660-5606-010a-ebbd-77f1de08b295@pobox.com>
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You should that page now has some basic (if perhaps overly verbose)
information.  Thanks for prodding us!

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 11:08 AM, James E Keenan via yapc <yapc at pm.org>
wrote:

> On 04/26/2017 10:31 AM, Richard Siddall via yapc wrote:
>
>> There are also a very limited number of multi-day parking spaces at a
>> few of the Washington Metro stations (see the Metro web site for which
>> ones).  You can park your car there and use the Metro to get around.  I
>> believe you need a Metro card to exit the parking lot.  It's much less
>> expensive than parking at a hotel, but you have the additional cost of
>> the trips to and from the station where you parked your car.
>>
>> Since the multi-day parking can fill up, you may want to have a backup
>> plan for parking.
>>
>>     Richard.
>>
>> Joshua Turcotte via yapc wrote:
>>
>>> There are quite a few parking garages (and a few open-to-the-sky lots
>>> a few
>>> blocks west) in the vicinity, but the PTO has two multi-story garages
>>> attached by walkway to the main building on either side (east and west.)
>>>  Both cost money but max out at $10 a day, which is very tame for the
>>> D.C.
>>> area where $25+ is not unusual.  I can attest to the fact that the
>>> west-side garage (at least) has electric car charging stations as well
>>> (free to charge.)  I've not been in the east, so not sure if that is
>>> mirrored there or not.
>>>
>>>
> Could someone transfer these details to the wiki?
>
> https://github.com/dcbpw/tpc-2017-dc/wiki/Parking-Near-Conference-Center
>
> Thank you very much.
> Jim Keenan
>
>
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From jkeenan at pobox.com  Thu May 18 10:14:24 2017
From: jkeenan at pobox.com (James E Keenan)
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 13:14:24 -0400
Subject: TPC Arrivals Dinner: Sunday June 18
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Arrivals Dinner

Sunday, June 18 2017, 6:00 pm EDT

A TPC (f.k.a. YAPC) tradition.  The night before the first full day of 
the conference, the conference attendees -- *not* the conference 
organizers -- organize a dinner whose focus is

* to get you a good meal and drinks after a day of travel; and

* to enable you to meet your fellow attendees in a relaxed and friendly 
environment.

This is *an* arrivals dinner but not necessarily *the* arrivals dinner. 
It's also a tradition that others who prefer smaller crowds and/or a 
more vegan-friendly menu organize an Alt Arrival Dinner 
(https://github.com/dcbpw/tpc-2017-dc/wiki/Alt-Arrival-Dinner).

I have been conducting Internet searches of restaurants near the 
conference venue and hotel and have spoken with several locations.  We 
generally need a venue that can handle an influx of 30 or more people at 
6:00 pm on a Sunday and can then accommodate 20 or more people arriving 
over the course of the next two hours.  I will post details of my 
inquiries by Sunday May 21.  I have opened this wiki page:

https://github.com/dcbpw/tpc-2017-dc/wiki/Arrivals-Dinner

Once more details are available we'll then convert this page into a 
sign-up sheet so that we can provide the venue with a projected count of 
attendance.

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan