- From: Kendall Clark <kendall@monkeyfist.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:47:03 -0400
- To: public-rdf-dawg@w3.org
Inspired by Janne's quick offer, here's mine: F2F Hosting Offer -- Washington, DC When: 19 and 20 January 2005 (or 12 and 13 January 2005) Where: Washington, DC (Airports: IAD, DCA, BWI) Who: UMD's Mindlab and Tucana Technology We can host a DAWG face to face meeting on the campus of UMD, College Park, which is metro-accessible and about 7 miles from downtown Washington, DC. While we haven't firmed up actual meeting location details, the options include meeting at Mindlab (but our conference room only comfortably holds about 10), at the UMD conference center, or in a CS classroom. At all of these locations we'll have wifi net access, and the classroom buildings are entirely wifi, which is nice. College Park, MD, is about a $50 taxi -- or 1 hr metro -- ride from IAD (aka "Dulles"), which has the most direct flights from Europe and Asia. It's a $25 taxi -- or 30 minute metro -- ride from DCA (aka "National", unless you're a Republican, in which case: aka "Reagan"). There are two or three relatively inexpensive motels in College Park, near the university; there are dozens of hotels a comfortable metro ride away in various parts of DC itself; and the university has a hotel/conference center so that people can stay very close to the meeting place if we use the conference center. I suspect, but can't say for certain yet, that Mindlab/Tucana would provide at least light refreshments during meetings and probably lunches. DC's a fun place and about 30 minutes away by metro from College Park, so there's plenty of opportunities for off-meeting merriment and socializing. As for weather, DC shouldn't be as cold as Finland in January, but we also won't have a sauna nearby or birch branches or endless streams of vodka... YMMV. :> More info: UMD Mindlab site http://www.mindswap.org/ UMD http://www.umd.edu/ UMD Inn and Conference Center http://www.inform.umd.edu/CampusInfo/Facilities/Buildings/umuc/ Computer Science Instruction Center, site of classrooms where meetings could be held -- a totally wifi building http://www.cs.umd.edu/Department/CSIC/ Official Tourism site for Washington DC http://www.washington.org/ Washington DC Sightseeing Map (if you squint, you can see my apartment!) http://sc94.ameslab.gov/TOUR/tour.html Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority http://www.wmata.com/ Ben's Chili Bowl -- a DC institution since 1958 http://www.benschilibowl.com/ Best, Kendall Clark
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