[Cadre-politics] [Fwd: [yapc] arrival dinner herding]

[Manuel Castillo]

this is tomorrow??


On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Dan MacNeil wrote:

> This is part of why I always feel more community at the perl monger 
> events than at the CTC (community technology center) events.
> 
> Not having to pay for software is the smallest useful bit of free 
> software culture.
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [yapc] arrival dinner herding
> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:42:21 -0400
> From: Uri Guttman <uri at stemsystems.com>
> To: yapc at mail.pm.org
> 
> 
> if you have ever been to a yapc arrival dinner, then you have
> experienced the thrill that is herding hackers through the rolling
> plains in a major city. so here is my super sekrit plan which you will
> tell no one else lest they actually arrive at the arrival dinner. can i
> trust you not to leak?
> 
> we will meet in the lobby of one of the dorm's (which one is better for
> this?) before 6pm on sunday june 25 (that is 3 days from now!!). we will
> leave IO::Promptly at 6pm and migrate to the nearest redline El stop
> which is not far. we will need pathfinders who know the way and ropers
> to keep the stragglers from getting lost in the many deep river
> crossings. we can arm you with sharks with laser beams (every herder is
> given a laser courtesy of stonehenge!). we will get on a redline train
> and take it to the stop nearest goose island (the one for wrigley park
> as goose island is near there). we detrain (learning python counts as
> detraining) and go on a long forced march (about 4 blocks) to goose
> island. we should be able to herd you all over there by 7pm. there is
> little leeway for error. if you do not follow the herd you may be
> exposed to the real world which can be very painful. so stay near your
> fellow mongers on this trip.
> 
> after the arrival dinner, you can join the anti-arrival dinner crowd in
> their anarchist revelries! you can crawl or EL your way home or
> elsewhere on your own. we have the room from 7-9pm but they will not
> shoot you if you dawdle. they just request you crawl over to the main
> bar area or outside at a reasonable time.
> 
> good news on the payment setup. josh is going to pay for the whole thing
> as a yapc expense so we don't pay sales tax (9+%!!). yeah for josh! but
> this means we have to pay josh (or rather yapc). so we be selling (goose
> island required) wristbands at the door to the room for $30. this should
> cover everything (we got hit with a $75 server fee for the
> bartender/waitron since we didn't order a drink package). but we don't
> have to pay the sales tax. $30 might be a touch over the total bill so
> you can either donate then extra buck or two to tpf (hey we can make a
> profit on the arrival dinner!) or you can be a cheap bastard and ask for
> your refund. and we won't announce the names of anyone asking for a
> refund! and if we have some laptops there (gosh, think there might be
> one or two in this crowd?) we can accept payment by credit card to the
> tpf donation site. but cash will still be better and easier. another
> reason for the $30 figure is to keep it easy :).
> 
> and remember, you will have fun or else!
> 
> your chairman of the federal yapc reserve fund,
> 
> uri
> 
> 

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