- From: Gary Hallmark <gary.hallmark@oracle.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:30:10 -0700
- To: Chris Welty <cawelty@gmail.com>
- CC: Christian de Sainte Marie <csma@ilog.fr>, RIF WG <public-rif-wg@w3.org>
+1 for midtown Chris Welty wrote: > > > > The addresses are: > > 33 Maiden Lane > New York, NY 10038 > > and > > 590 Madison Avenue > New York, NY 10022 > > The former is in the financial (wall street) district, the latter is > on the northern side of midtown (57th St.) in Manhattan. I am trying > to find out if IBM has a special rate with any hotels. > > -Chris > > > > Christian de Sainte Marie wrote: >> >> All, >> >> There are three possible locations for F2F1, all in or close to >> New-York city: >> - In Hawthorne, where we already had F2F7; >> - In New-York City, midtown Manhattan; >> - In New-York City, downtown Manhattan (that's around Wall Street). >> >> The group seemed to prefer NYC to Hawthorne, but we wanted to >> reconfirm that preference before finalizing the location, the point >> being that there might not be hotel rooms within walking distance in >> NYC (*) and that room price are likely to be in the 300$ and above, >> unless you stay in Brooklin. >> >> (*) Well, that depend what you call walking distance, of course, but >> do not count too much on finding a room much closer than 3 to 5 blocks. >> >> Chris will post the exact adresses of the prospective location on the >> F2F11 wiki [1] asap. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Christian >> >> [1] http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wiki/F2F11 >> >> >> >
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