[Cologne-pm] YAPC::Europe::2003

[D at vid lacravate]

Hi Mike ,

En ce jour du Mon, 28 Apr 2003 23:45:18 +0200,
Michael Lamertz <mike at lamertz.net> parlait ainsi :
> Thanks for your announcement (3 times btw. ;-).  I'm still missing some
Yeah yeah ... i know ... If it could soothe you just a little , i did that too for two or three other monger groups (well ok , three or four ;)...

> information about upcoming talks and their presenters.
Ahah ! A key point ...

> As a participant at last year's YAPC in Munich, I'm actually looking
> forward to visit paris - although I don't speak a friggin' word of
Motivating enough ... 

> french besides of "Croissant" and Merde'.
That's definitely a start ... ;-)

> If you'll post a list of the people that'll be there, I might comment on
> who they are and perhaps give a rationale of their talks, because I
> might have already heard it - and thus do some "advertising" for your
> conference...
Ok ... Hum ... We are definite on the right on the overall organisation but we must admit we were late about some subjects ... Talks collection for one .

So we lack talks (definitely not enough) as Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat will announce in the next issue of his blog on www.useperl.org
http://use.perl.org/~book/journal/

So we won't be sure who will talk about what and how until somewhere around the beginning of June . Until then , we hope to be able to setup an online sum up of the proposed talks which will foreshadow Y::E schedule .

In the meantime , you can have a guess about who will speak by having a look at
http://yapc.mongueurs.net/yapc/search/

and clicking on the button without filling in anything . It'll give the complete list of registered people (127 at this time) and thus potential speakers ...

> If that list is yet to be created though, I'm sure everybody from
> Cologne.pm would like to hear from you as soon as the information is
> available.
Just count on me , i'll let you know , i put on my list of the happy receivers of disguised spam ;-)

> Another thing that I'd like you to comment on is the quality of
> available hotels.  You list 2 and 3 star hotels in the area.  From my
> experiences in London, 3 stars is the absolute minimum, but that might
> be a Brit's thing.  Can you give us a bit of Details about what's to
> expect with 2 and 3 stars?
I'm glad you ask because it means you read what is to me the most important thing in my announcement : logistics ...

As i said and confirm , we are (i am) definitely willing to help on the hotel item . 

Now about french standars : you had a shrewd guess , France and UK are totally different when it comes to lodgings . 
You'll be able to find much cheaper hotel (with equialent services) in Paris than in London . So the 2-star hotels that are indicated on the website are the upper average and 3-star is assuredly the beginning of luxury accomodations .

The best quality/price ratio will be found with 2-star (generally clean room , television , bathroom inside) . But you can be lucky with 1 or 0-star hotel although i would not advise them , simply because you could as well be _un_lucky ... (your side note example is a bad-luck french 1-star hotel) . About prices : they certainly tend to swell during summer but you can think of 60 Eur (for 2-star) .

Was it clear ?
Other questions ?

Cheers .

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