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

[Dan MacNeil]

 > On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Dan MacNeil wrote:

yes, but we aren't going as we didn't have the money when it was time to 
plan travel.


Manuel Castillo wrote:
> this is tomorrow??
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> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Dan MacNeil wrote:
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>>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
>>
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>>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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