I called the UCSC Conference Office, and the conditions are better than I reported:
- Cost: $100 / person *including* full meals (3 meals / day). - Space: they have availability, especially in August / early September. - Transportation: apparently not difficult to charter buses for peak periods from SFO.
Let me know if you would like me to look into this further.
Luca
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Eugene Eric Kim eekim@blueoxen.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Luca de Alfaro luca@dealfaro.org wrote:
I am also at Google now, so if you like, I could at least let it be known
of
the possibility; I have no idea of whether it would be possible, or advisable, to get Google support or space for this. Any feedback?
I've organized several events hosted by Google through Leslie Hawthorn, who's great and is a friend of our community. (She's been to several RCCs.) The experience has been great, but it has the same problems as the others listed: size (probably can't host a 1,000 person gathering), proximity to housing, transportation, etc.
It sounds like Berkeley is the best bet so far. Phoebe, have you investigated other local universities?
=Eugene
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