From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 29 4:33:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.monmouth.com (shell.monmouth.com [209.191.58.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FA9837B640 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 04:33:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pechter@bg-tc-ppp122.monmouth.com) Received: from bg-tc-ppp122.monmouth.com (bg-tc-ppp122.monmouth.com [209.191.60.123]) by shell.monmouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA16205 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 07:31:21 -0500 (EST) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by bg-tc-ppp122.monmouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA03101 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 07:39:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from pechter) From: Bill Pechter Message-Id: <200003291239.HAA03101@bg-tc-ppp122.monmouth.com> Subject: BSDcon East In-Reply-To: from freebsd-chat-digest at "Mar 28, 2000 05:32:45 pm" To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 07:39:17 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: bpechter@shell.monmouth.com X-Phone-Number: 732-935-0629 X-OS-Type: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brad Knowles writes: > > At 5:28 PM -0700 2000/3/27, Brett Glass wrote: > > > If one wanted to do the convention near DC, Baltimore would be a > > good choice because there are lots of bargain airfares and a > > glut of hotel rooms in the area. Yup... and the Baltimore Inner Harbor area has quite a nice collection of tourist attractions... including a slick Aquarium, Science Museum, Camden Yard, the B&O railroad museuum and a ton of hotels right in a close area. > > Baltimore is quite a bit cheaper than the DC area, but is also > close enough that you can still consider flying into Dulles or > Washington National and making the drive, taking the bus, or taking > the train to make that final connection. > > Finally, for those people who might be doing some vacation in and > around the time, it's closer to both DC (if you want to do > sightseeing) and the Virginia/Maryland/Delaware/New Jersey coast -- > only about three hours away from Long Island New Jersey (where a > friend of mine owns a beach house ;-). > Long Beach Island... 8-) > > If you're serious about a BSDCon on the East Coast, I think that > the Baltimore/DC area has more going for it than any other I can > think of, and has fewer drawbacks. > I think this would be an excellent place... I don't have a good idea as to how large a place would be needed. In addition to the large number of hotels, there is a fairly large conference center there as well... My last trip down they were holding a tow truck convention with towing operators from all across the country. All the free parking areas were loaded with tow trucks. Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message