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That's a crazy idea (Score:1)
Where do I sign up?
I suppose holding the conference in the Perlan would be both impractical and excessively expensive.
It's still a dtich ... (Score:1)
Technically it's still a ditch, though the day I was there it was raining sideways and my daughter* and I couldn't do more than dash out look around and dash back into the car.
I'm with wirebird though, where do I sign up? I love Iceland and recommend a stop over there to anybody who's traveling between NA and EU.
* Here's a fun vacation game, try explaining Plate Tectonics to a 3 year old :)
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I used to work for an airline that borrowed Aer Lingus planes during the off season to run vacation charters out of the (USAn) East Coast. At the beginning and end of the season, us employees had the chance to ride the placement flights for free. Unfortunately, since I didn't want to (well, I *wanted* to, but you know what I mean) stay in Ireland throughout the charter season, I would still have had to pay for the one-way trip the other direction. As I recall, flying to/from Dublin one-way would have been l
I like Iceland (Score:2)
On the plus side, Iceland is a very beautiful country and a wonderful place to visit.
On the negative side, airfare is expensive, and I don't think there's anyone offering to organize it.
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Well, I'm looking into what the costs would be, and from there we'll see how to go about it if the NPW people think it could work.
And the Australians... (Score:1)
... will be under the bridge, where we'll emerge from to collect tolls.
Center of mass (Score:1)
But anyway, European DebConfs since I joined (2003, 2005 and 2007) were respectively in Oslo, Helsinki and Edinburgh - relatively close to Iceland at least!
NPW in Iceland (Score:1)
recently. For those that don't know I'm probably the best known Perl
guy in Iceland amongst the regular conference going crowd having
written a few CPAN modules and hacked core a bit.
There's no monger group in Iceland which would somewhat impede the
execution of a plan such as this one, however that's no
obstacle really. Arranging everything could be done through the help
of local organizations such as the newly-formed FSFI (which is holding
a la
Re: (Score:1)
Heh! I don't think this is comparable to TR Lira. We used to buy Coke for half a million (old) lira you know :p Anyway, YTL does not have that annoying zeroes :)