Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
I just wanted to make sure that this gets the widest possible distribution. I'm not sure if announcements have been made in other languages, but hopefully this conference will be widely discussed in all languages.
It's going to be amazing! Start saving your money now, no one should miss it. :-)
Well, I'll start saving, but on a student's stipend it might be 2007 before I save up enough money to travel to Europe...
[Wonders when we can begin lobbying for Wikimeetup 2006 to be west of the Atlantic. =]
-Mark
Rebecca wrote:
[Wonders when we can begin lobbying for Wikimeetup 2006 to be west of the Atlantic. =]
...or south of the Equator. ;)
Perhaps the South Americans could fulfill both criteria! =]
-Mark
Delirium a écrit:
Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
I just wanted to make sure that this gets the widest possible distribution. I'm not sure if announcements have been made in other languages, but hopefully this conference will be widely discussed in all languages.
It's going to be amazing! Start saving your money now, no one should miss it. :-)
Well, I'll start saving, but on a student's stipend it might be 2007 before I save up enough money to travel to Europe...
[Wonders when we can begin lobbying for Wikimeetup 2006 to be west of the Atlantic. =]
-Mark
Best I can suggest is to prepare a *very* solid report for a city. Low costs, good accomodation, plenty of locals to help, funny nights, conference and sleeping at the same place... do all this, and you get a chance ! :-)
Anthere wrote:
Delirium a écrit:
Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
I just wanted to make sure that this gets the widest possible distribution. I'm not sure if announcements have been made in other languages, but hopefully this conference will be widely discussed in all languages.
It's going to be amazing! Start saving your money now, no one should miss it. :-)
Well, I'll start saving, but on a student's stipend it might be 2007 before I save up enough money to travel to Europe...
[Wonders when we can begin lobbying for Wikimeetup 2006 to be west of the Atlantic. =]
Best I can suggest is to prepare a *very* solid report for a city. Low costs, good accomodation, plenty of locals to help, funny nights, conference and sleeping at the same place... do all this, and you get a chance ! :-)
Sleeping at the same place? Wow!
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Anthere wrote:
Best I can suggest is to prepare a *very* solid report for a city. Low costs, good accomodation, plenty of locals to help, funny nights, conference and sleeping at the same place... do all this, and you get a chance ! :-)
The main thing would probably be plane tickets, if anyone manages to come up with some great ideas or good pointers to cheap transatlantic tickets. This depends partly on when exactly the conference is and how the airline market fluctuates over the next six months or so, but in the one European vacation I've paid for (not counting family trips when I was a kid), the plane tickets accounted for around 75% of the total trip costs. It seems hard to find a transatlantic flight for under US$600 in the summer, and NYC-London is the only route that is even that cheap---most others are $800-$1100.
Of course, perhaps something exciting could happen in the international airline market in the next few months...
-Mark
Delirium a écrit:
Anthere wrote:
Best I can suggest is to prepare a *very* solid report for a city. Low costs, good accomodation, plenty of locals to help, funny nights, conference and sleeping at the same place... do all this, and you get a chance ! :-)
The main thing would probably be plane tickets, if anyone manages to come up with some great ideas or good pointers to cheap transatlantic tickets. This depends partly on when exactly the conference is and how the airline market fluctuates over the next six months or so, but in the one European vacation I've paid for (not counting family trips when I was a kid), the plane tickets accounted for around 75% of the total trip costs. It seems hard to find a transatlantic flight for under US$600 in the summer, and NYC-London is the only route that is even that cheap---most others are $800-$1100.
Of course, perhaps something exciting could happen in the international airline market in the next few months...
-Mark
Are you volunteering to try to negociate for us good travel transatlantic ticket Mark ?
That is a great idea you have here, and I hope you can help on this. It will be much appreciated.
Anthere
Anthere wrote:
Are you volunteering to try to negociate for us good travel transatlantic ticket Mark ?
That is a great idea you have here, and I hope you can help on this. It will be much appreciated.
I'll certainly be willing to help, but I have no particular experience in the travel market besides scouring the internet. I could put together a list of the best prices I can personally find though, and people can wiki-update as necessary. If there are any people who actually work as travel agents who can help us out, that'd of course be ideal. =]
One caveat is that it's very hard to predict the best prices. It used to be true that basically the earlier you buy tickets in advance, the cheaper they are. That's no longer true, because sometimes as the date pulls closer prices will drop dramatically if it turns out there's too many unsold seats left and the airline needs to get rid of them (last year ticket prices for flights in June and July dropped quite a bit in March and April). But you can't count on or predict that well either, so all we can really do is give people information and let them guess for themselves...
-Mark
Delirium a écrit:
Anthere wrote:
Are you volunteering to try to negociate for us good travel transatlantic ticket Mark ?
That is a great idea you have here, and I hope you can help on this. It will be much appreciated.
I'll certainly be willing to help, but I have no particular experience in the travel market besides scouring the internet. I could put together a list of the best prices I can personally find though, and people can wiki-update as necessary. If there are any people who actually work as travel agents who can help us out, that'd of course be ideal. =]
One caveat is that it's very hard to predict the best prices. It used to be true that basically the earlier you buy tickets in advance, the cheaper they are. That's no longer true, because sometimes as the date pulls closer prices will drop dramatically if it turns out there's too many unsold seats left and the airline needs to get rid of them (last year ticket prices for flights in June and July dropped quite a bit in March and April). But you can't count on or predict that well either, so all we can really do is give people information and let them guess for themselves...
-Mark
Yeah, that is true... Well, information might reveal valuable anyway I think. I would suppose that north american, especially on the east cost, should be able to find devent prices. I remember some Paris-New York deals could be really nice.
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