As much as I hate to recommend cars, Ohio is incredibly car-centric, so a rental car is probably your best bet. Public transportation in Ohio is sporadic and inefficient. It takes less than an hour to get to Sandusky from Cleveland Airport, whereas the trip on public transport could easily take several times that when you factor in getting to the Greyhound stop from Cleveland Airport and getting to the hotel from the Greyhound stop in Sandusky.
To minimise cost and keep it more economical, perhaps you could coordinate arrival/departure times on the wiki to try to group yourselves up and share the ride?
Dan (an honorary Buckeye)
On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 at 23:40, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
After more googling I found that greyhound offers more reasonable time buses (12:30pm). Anyways, more info on recommendations on transportation would be appreciated :)
On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 11:25 PM Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I was wondering, when would I have to book the hotel by to get that rate?
Also, I notice Sandusky seems to be a bit difficult to get to. Google seems to suggest I should take a airplane to Cleaveland, and then take a 3am amtrack train (no reasonable time choices) from there to Sandusky. Is that really the best travel option?
-- Brian
On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 5:01 PM Evans, Richard K. (GRC-H000) via MediaWiki-l mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
ATTENTION MEDIAWIKI ADMINS, DEVELOPERS, AND USERS!
APRIL 1-3, 2020 --- SANDUSKY, OHIO USA
We are excited to announce EMWCon Spring 2020, the Enterprise MediaWiki Conference [0], happening from April 1-3 in Sandusky, Ohio USA. The conference will have two days of talks followed by a one day Create
Camp.
There will be many opportunities to interact with others using and developing MediaWiki.
Quick Link: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EMWCon_Spring_2020
== WHAT TO DO RIGHT NOW ==
If you know you're going to attend:
- Please add your name to the unofficial attendance list [4] and watch
that page for more detail on registration. 2. Book your room today [3] 3. Registration for EMWCon is coming soon, so WATCH the EMWCon Spring 2020 page to get notifications of updates in advance of future announcements.
== IF YOU'D LIKE TO PROPOSE A TALK ==
Please propose your talk on the event page [1] as soon as possible, including a title, a brief description, and your name.
- If your presentation is accepted, we'll contact you to get a short
abstract of your talk
- Check out the "CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS" section below for more
information
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PREVIOUS EMW CONFERENCES, PLEASE SEE [2]
If you have any questions please feel free to email me at:
- richard.k.evans@nasa.gov
Thank you for your interest and I hope to see you in April 2020!!!
Sincerely, The EMWCon 2020 organizing committee
- Richard Evans (General Chair)
- Yaron Koren (Registration Chair and Principal Sponsor)
- Cindy Cicalese (Program Chair)
- Others to be announced (let us know if you want to be part of the
organizing team)
== CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS ==
If you are using MediaWiki + some important combination of extensions,
we
would love to have you as a speaker.
We are looking for speakers to provide 20 minute talks that address any combination of the following questions:
- Tell us about your enterprise wiki application -- What version are you
running? Which extensions matter most to you?
- Tell us what business domain it serves -- Private Industry?
Non-Profit?
Government?
- Tell us what you use it for and how - Content Management?
Documentation? Resource Planning? Compliance?
- Tell us what technical and implementation successes and challenges can
you tell us about? - Availability? Confidentiality? Integrity?
- Tell us what cultural successes and challenges can you tell us about?
Reach? Engagement? Training?
- Tell us what administration and lifecycle successes and challenges can
you tell us about?
- Tell us how MediaWiki fits in to your organization's mission and
vision
and what your plans are for your MediaWiki site going forward
All presentations will be recorded and made available after the conference.
== FUN FACTS ABOUT EMWCon 2020 ==
- This is the 5th meeting of this group, however it is the 1st time we
will be meeting in an actual large-scale conference venue
- "The Kalahari" in Sandusky is an all-in-one, family-friendly
hotel-resort-conference venue.
- Conference attendees will get family sized rooms at discounted rate of
~ $105 US per night (versus the normal > $200 advertised resort rates)
- Conference attendees and their families will get full-run of the
world's largest indoor water park included with their room bookings
- Sandusky is known as "The vacation capital of the north"
** ref: https://www.shoresandislands.com/local/central-shores ** The conference venue is located across the street from NASA's Plum Brook Station, where NASA Orion Spacecraft is presently being tested for the Artemis-1 mission to the moon.
== NASA TOUR ==
A tour of NASA's Plum Brook Station is being organized and will be included with the general registration at no extra charge.
- ref 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s39Kl0ruj1Y&t=1m26s
- ref 2:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/glenn/2019/orion-to-face-simulated-rigors-of-sp...
== References ==
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EMWCon_Spring_2020#Unofficial_conference_sign...
/Rich Evans https://riot.im/app/#/user/@revansx:matrix.org
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