From kathy at kathyreid.id.au Sun Nov 2 15:56:42 2014 From: kathy at kathyreid.id.au (Kathy Reid) Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 15:56:42 +1100 Subject: [Chat] Welcome all Message-ID: <5455B98A.5040001@kathyreid.id.au> Hi all, Just a quick shout out to list. Looking forward very much to January and to conf. For all first timers, the place to start is Simon Lyall's guide here; http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/2007/0129.html Next, update your arrival and departure time; https://linux.conf.au/wiki/Arrivals_Departures (use your credentials from the linux.conf.au site to log into the Wiki) This lets the conference organisers know who's arriving when, and how many busses to put on from the airport. Follow the action at the #lca2015 hashtag on Twitter and follow the @linuxconfau account If you are on IRC, join the #linxuconfau chatroom on freenode.net Think about what you're going to pack. The conf is jeans-and-tshirt, but pack something nice for Penguin Dinner. Make sure you remember visas, passports, all your cables etc. NZ power outlets are the same as Australian - 240V AC same as Aussie adapter. The Wiki is where the key information is kept; https://linux.conf.au/wiki Read it, bookmark it etc. It will be your key guide to the conf. Take care and see everyone in January :-) Best, Kathy -- -- Kathy Reid kathy at kathyreid.id.au 0418 130 636 @kathyreid From lca at ewen.mcneill.gen.nz Thu Nov 13 12:42:18 2014 From: lca at ewen.mcneill.gen.nz (Ewen McNeill) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 14:42:18 +1300 Subject: [Chat] Parking options for those driving from out of town Message-ID: <54640C7A.5050706@ewen.mcneill.gen.nz> I'm trying to decide between driving to LCA2015 and flying to LCA2015 (then flying home, and driving back to another conference half way in between home and Auckland...). One of the things I'm trying to figure out is what parking options I might have for whole-week parking while at LCA2015 (I don't expect to need the car much while at LCA, but will need it before/after :-) ). The LCA2015 Wiki Transport page (https://linux.conf.au/wiki/Transport) page is pretty light on detail about parking options; it just says: -=- cut here -=- Parking at venue Lots! See Faq. -=- cut here -=- without even a link. I'm guessing it means this FAQ: https://linux.conf.au/wiki/LCA_FAQ which says only: -=- cut here -=- What parking options are there at the Venue? The building we are using at the University of Auckland (OGGB) has a 5 level 1000 park carpark in the basement. General parking rates apply. -=- cut here -=- That is useful information if you're driving to the conference for the day and driving home at night. But it does not seem as useful if you want to leave your car there all week -- because it links to the University of Auckland Owen Glenn Building page which looks like a daily carpark: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/the-university/how-university-works/campuses-locations-transport/campus-parking-options.html and it's also $30/day (daytime; so around $240 for a week, at a guess -- a significant portion of the cost of flying return). Are there any options for people driving to the conference and staying the week? In case it helps, I'm staying at the Carlaw Park Student Village (http://www.accommodation.auckland.ac.nz/en/self-catered-apartments1/carlaw-park-student-village.html). Their fact sheet (https://cdn.auckland.ac.nz/assets/accommodation/documents/fact-sheet-CPSV-2015.pdf) implies that they do have some student parking available, but it's not clear if that's available to LCA2015 attendees. Or is my best option, if I drive, to find a friend living on the outskirts of Auckland and leave my car with them for the week? It's not especially convenient, but cheaper than $200+ in parking and/or having my car towed. Ewen From mark.foster at lca2015.linux.org.au Thu Nov 13 13:37:09 2014 From: mark.foster at lca2015.linux.org.au (Mark Foster) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:37:09 +1300 Subject: [Chat] Parking options for those driving from out of town In-Reply-To: <54640C7A.5050706@ewen.mcneill.gen.nz> References: <54640C7A.5050706@ewen.mcneill.gen.nz> Message-ID: <54641955.30400@lca2015.linux.org.au> Hi Ewen, The majority of the parking options in Auckland CBD will be daily-rate as the vast majority of people using the car parks, are daily commuters. This is what the answers on the Wiki etc are clearly geared towards. If you have a friend in Auckland who has some space that your car can occupy for the time you're in Auckland, this will most certainly be the cheapest option. If you do wind up researching alternatives and finding some good answers, feel free to update the Wiki. :-) However I will flag this as an item for attention by the org team and see if we can apply some local knowledge to assist. Off the top of my head, I don't know of any reasonably priced options that'd meet your needs and are also reasonably handy. Regards Mark. On 13/11/2014 2:42 p.m., Ewen McNeill wrote: > I'm trying to decide between driving to LCA2015 and flying to LCA2015 > (then flying home, and driving back to another conference half way in > between home and Auckland...). One of the things I'm trying to figure > out is what parking options I might have for whole-week parking while > at LCA2015 (I don't expect to need the car much while at LCA, but will > need it before/after :-) ). > > The LCA2015 Wiki Transport page (https://linux.conf.au/wiki/Transport) > page is pretty light on detail about parking options; it just says: > > -=- cut here -=- > Parking at venue > > Lots! See Faq. > -=- cut here -=- > > without even a link. I'm guessing it means this FAQ: > > https://linux.conf.au/wiki/LCA_FAQ > > which says only: > > -=- cut here -=- > What parking options are there at the Venue? > > The building we are using at the University of Auckland (OGGB) has a 5 > level 1000 park carpark in the basement. General parking rates apply. > -=- cut here -=- > > That is useful information if you're driving to the conference for the > day and driving home at night. But it does not seem as useful if you > want to leave your car there all week -- because it links to the > University of Auckland Owen Glenn Building page which looks like a > daily carpark: > > https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/the-university/how-university-works/campuses-locations-transport/campus-parking-options.html > > > and it's also $30/day (daytime; so around $240 for a week, at a guess > -- a significant portion of the cost of flying return). > > Are there any options for people driving to the conference and staying > the week? In case it helps, I'm staying at the Carlaw Park Student > Village > (http://www.accommodation.auckland.ac.nz/en/self-catered-apartments1/carlaw-park-student-village.html). > Their fact sheet > (https://cdn.auckland.ac.nz/assets/accommodation/documents/fact-sheet-CPSV-2015.pdf) > implies that they do have some student parking available, but it's not > clear if that's available to LCA2015 attendees. > > Or is my best option, if I drive, to find a friend living on the > outskirts of Auckland and leave my car with them for the week? It's > not especially convenient, but cheaper than $200+ in parking and/or > having my car towed. > > Ewen > _______________________________________________ > Chat mailing list > Chat at lists.lca2015.linux.org.au > http://lists.lca2015.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/chat From alw at abcom.co.nz Thu Nov 13 16:38:55 2014 From: alw at abcom.co.nz (Athol Wilson) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 18:38:55 +1300 Subject: [Chat] Parking options for those driving from out of town In-Reply-To: <54641955.30400@lca2015.linux.org.au> References: <54640C7A.5050706@ewen.mcneill.gen.nz> <54641955.30400@lca2015.linux.org.au> Message-ID: <546443EF.6020902@abcom.co.nz> Hi Ewen, Normally at this time of year Auckland will be pretty quiet (most come back on the 20th) and I would have thought student parking wouldn't be a problem. It might also be possible to arrange for a weekly rate. We live 6km from the venue and my son and I will be using the bus - about $3.00 each way. Also our particular street is no exit, pretty secure and mainly empty during the day (although several commuters park at the bottom each day and take the bus) so that would be another option if anyone wants to take it up. (I could check everything was ok each day as well if I knew which belonged to LCA attendees.) Athol On 13/11/2014 3:37 p.m., Mark Foster wrote: > Hi Ewen, > > The majority of the parking options in Auckland CBD will be daily-rate > as the vast majority of people using the car parks, are daily > commuters. This is what the answers on the Wiki etc are clearly > geared towards. > > If you have a friend in Auckland who has some space that your car can > occupy for the time you're in Auckland, this will most certainly be > the cheapest option. > > If you do wind up researching alternatives and finding some good > answers, feel free to update the Wiki. :-) However I will flag this as > an item for attention by the org team and see if we can apply some > local knowledge to assist. > Off the top of my head, I don't know of any reasonably priced options > that'd meet your needs and are also reasonably handy. > > Regards > Mark. > > > _______________________________________________ > Chat mailing list > Chat at lists.lca2015.linux.org.au > http://lists.lca2015.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/chat From steve at lca2015.linux.org.au Sun Nov 16 14:07:08 2014 From: steve at lca2015.linux.org.au (Steven Ellis) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 16:07:08 +1300 Subject: [Chat] Parking options for those driving from out of town In-Reply-To: <546443EF.6020902@abcom.co.nz> References: <54640C7A.5050706@ewen.mcneill.gen.nz> <54641955.30400@lca2015.linux.org.au> <546443EF.6020902@abcom.co.nz> Message-ID: We are discussing parking options with the university. More details as we get them Steve On 13 November 2014 18:38, Athol Wilson wrote: > Hi Ewen, > Normally at this time of year Auckland will be pretty quiet (most come > back on the 20th) and I would have thought student parking wouldn't be a > problem. It might also be possible to arrange for a weekly rate. > We live 6km from the venue and my son and I will be using the bus - about > $3.00 each way. > Also our particular street is no exit, pretty secure and mainly empty > during the day (although several commuters park at the bottom each day and > take the bus) so that would be another option if anyone wants to take it > up. (I could check everything was ok each day as well if I knew which > belonged to LCA attendees.) > Athol > > On 13/11/2014 3:37 p.m., Mark Foster wrote: > >> Hi Ewen, >> >> The majority of the parking options in Auckland CBD will be daily-rate as >> the vast majority of people using the car parks, are daily commuters. This >> is what the answers on the Wiki etc are clearly geared towards. >> >> If you have a friend in Auckland who has some space that your car can >> occupy for the time you're in Auckland, this will most certainly be the >> cheapest option. >> >> If you do wind up researching alternatives and finding some good answers, >> feel free to update the Wiki. :-) However I will flag this as an item for >> attention by the org team and see if we can apply some local knowledge to >> assist. >> Off the top of my head, I don't know of any reasonably priced options >> that'd meet your needs and are also reasonably handy. >> >> Regards >> Mark. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Chat mailing list >> Chat at lists.lca2015.linux.org.au >> http://lists.lca2015.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/chat >> > > _______________________________________________ > Chat mailing list > Chat at lists.lca2015.linux.org.au > http://lists.lca2015.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/chat > -- Steven Ellis Vice Chair and Sponsorship Lead LCA 2015 Auckland NZ *M:* +64 21 321 673 *E:* sponsors at lca2015.linux.org.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lca at ewen.mcneill.gen.nz Mon Nov 17 10:55:20 2014 From: lca at ewen.mcneill.gen.nz (Ewen McNeill) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:55:20 +1300 Subject: [Chat] Parking options for those driving from out of town In-Reply-To: References: <54640C7A.5050706@ewen.mcneill.gen.nz> Message-ID: <54693968.7000107@ewen.mcneill.gen.nz> On 17/11/14 11:42, Bruce Clement wrote: > You're staying about 700 metres from the Owen Glenn building so not > having a car would matter little for the conference itself. Yes, I definitely plan on walking/using the conference transport while _at_ the conference. The question for me is how I get to the conference at the start of the week, and leave at the end of the week. Driving (from Wellington!), rather than flying, gives me more options for travel after LCA. But means that I need "a home for my car" for the week of the conference. Hence the question about longer-than-a-day parking options. So far the best seems to be "park somewhere outside the CBD/restricted parking zones at the start of the week, fetch car after conference" -- for which I now have a few options. But maybe the LCA Team (who I know are looking now) and/or the University Accommodation group (who I also emailed directly) can turn up something more convenient, but not unrealistically expensive[0] (especially since there does appear to be a $30/week option for students...). Thanks everyone who has offered suggestions so far. If I turn up anything that might be of use to others too I'll post it to chat@ and/or add it to the Wiki. Ewen From remi at remlab.net Tue Nov 18 20:16:00 2014 From: remi at remlab.net (=?UTF-8?Q?R=C3=A9mi_Denis-Courmont?=) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 12:16:00 +0300 Subject: [Chat] Hotel sale: Pullman Message-ID: <81d8f032a8b5baab69dd8e6880244805@roundcube.remlab.net> Hello, If anyone cares, the Pullman hotel on the list of accomodations is having a sale right now. The "cheapest" room rate is at $137.40 including breakfast (or a little bit more if you refuse to create a customer account). By comparison the conference rate is $185 for the same room and $35 for breakfast. Note though that the sale rate is non-refundable. Best regards, -- R?mi Denis-Courmont From steve at lca2015.linux.org.au Wed Nov 19 14:11:41 2014 From: steve at lca2015.linux.org.au (Steven Ellis) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:11:41 +1300 Subject: [Chat] Hotel sale: Pullman In-Reply-To: <81d8f032a8b5baab69dd8e6880244805@roundcube.remlab.net> References: <81d8f032a8b5baab69dd8e6880244805@roundcube.remlab.net> Message-ID: Excellent deal. Thanks for sharing. On 18 November 2014 22:16, R?mi Denis-Courmont wrote: > Hello, > > If anyone cares, the Pullman hotel on the list of accomodations is having > a sale right now. The "cheapest" room rate is at $137.40 including > breakfast (or a little bit more if you refuse to create a customer account). > > By comparison the conference rate is $185 for the same room and $35 for > breakfast. Note though that the sale rate is non-refundable. > > Best regards, > > -- > R?mi Denis-Courmont > _______________________________________________ > Chat mailing list > Chat at lists.lca2015.linux.org.au > http://lists.lca2015.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/chat > -- Steven Ellis Vice Chair and Sponsorship Lead LCA 2015 Auckland NZ *M:* +64 21 321 673 *E:* sponsors at lca2015.linux.org.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cherie.ellis at lca2015.linux.org.au Sun Nov 23 13:15:38 2014 From: cherie.ellis at lca2015.linux.org.au (Cherie Ellis) Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:15:38 +1300 Subject: [Chat] LCA 2015 and InternetNZ Diversity Programme Message-ID: The LCA 2015 Organisers are proud to announce our funding programme! InternetNZ Diversity Programme LCA 2015 and InternetNZ are proud to support diversity. The InternetNZ Diversity Programme is one of the many ways we ensure that the LCA 2015 continues to be an open and welcoming conference for everyone. Together with InternetNZ this program has been created to assist under-represented delegates who contribute to the Open Source community but, without financial assistance, would not be able to attend LCA 2015. For more information please see our funding registration page: http://linux.conf.au/register/funding. LCA 2015 is proud to acknowledge the support of our Emperor Penguin Sponsors, Catalyst IT, HP and IBM, and our diversity sponsor Internet NZ The LCA 2015 Team linux.conf.au is one of the foremost open source conferences in the world and is considered the most prestigious in the Southern Hemisphere. The conference is well-known for the speakers' and delegates' depth of talent and its focus on technical linux content. LCA 2015 will be held in Auckland, New Zealand from Monday 12 to Friday 16 January 2015. Registrations are now open. http://www.lca2015.linux.org.au #BeAwesome -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From steve at lca2015.linux.org.au Sun Nov 23 14:38:32 2014 From: steve at lca2015.linux.org.au (Steven Ellis) Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 16:38:32 +1300 Subject: [Chat] LCA 2015 and InternetNZ Diversity Programme In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Can we please ask for assistance with promoting this announcement through your various community groups and social media followers. We are deeply impressed at the level of diversity within the conference program submissions and speakers for LCA 2015. Now we want to make sure Women and other traditionally under-represented groups are encouraged to attend LCA 2015. On 23 November 2014 at 15:15, Cherie Ellis < cherie.ellis at lca2015.linux.org.au> wrote: > The LCA 2015 Organisers are proud to announce our funding programme! > > InternetNZ Diversity Programme > > LCA 2015 and InternetNZ are proud to support diversity. The InternetNZ > Diversity Programme is one of the many ways we ensure that the LCA 2015 > continues to be an open and welcoming conference for everyone. Together > with InternetNZ this program has been created to assist under-represented > delegates who contribute to the Open Source community but, without > financial assistance, would not be able to attend LCA 2015. > > For more information please see our funding registration page: > http://linux.conf.au/register/funding. > > LCA 2015 is proud to acknowledge the support of our Emperor Penguin > Sponsors, Catalyst IT, HP and IBM, and our diversity sponsor Internet NZ > > The LCA 2015 Team > > linux.conf.au is one of the foremost open source conferences in the world > and is considered the most prestigious in the Southern Hemisphere. The > conference is well-known for the speakers' and delegates' depth of talent > and its focus on technical linux content. > > LCA 2015 will be held in Auckland, New Zealand from Monday 12 to Friday 16 > January 2015. Registrations are now open. > > http://www.lca2015.linux.org.au #BeAwesome > > _______________________________________________ > Chat mailing list > Chat at lists.lca2015.linux.org.au > http://lists.lca2015.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/chat > > -- Steven Ellis Vice Chair and Sponsorship Lead LCA 2015 Auckland NZ *M:* +64 21 321 673 *E:* sponsors at lca2015.linux.org.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From p at delfante.it Sun Nov 23 16:23:36 2014 From: p at delfante.it (Paul Del) Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 13:23:36 +0800 Subject: [Chat] LCA 2015 and InternetNZ Diversity Programme In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Good work lca2015 I posted to PLUG and a few other groups in Perth WA Cheers On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Cherie Ellis < cherie.ellis at lca2015.linux.org.au> wrote: > The LCA 2015 Organisers are proud to announce our funding programme! > > InternetNZ Diversity Programme > > LCA 2015 and InternetNZ are proud to support diversity. The InternetNZ > Diversity Programme is one of the many ways we ensure that the LCA 2015 > continues to be an open and welcoming conference for everyone. Together > with InternetNZ this program has been created to assist under-represented > delegates who contribute to the Open Source community but, without > financial assistance, would not be able to attend LCA 2015. > > For more information please see our funding registration page: > http://linux.conf.au/register/funding. > > LCA 2015 is proud to acknowledge the support of our Emperor Penguin > Sponsors, Catalyst IT, HP and IBM, and our diversity sponsor Internet NZ > > The LCA 2015 Team > > linux.conf.au is one of the foremost open source conferences in the world > and is considered the most prestigious in the Southern Hemisphere. The > conference is well-known for the speakers' and delegates' depth of talent > and its focus on technical linux content. > > LCA 2015 will be held in Auckland, New Zealand from Monday 12 to Friday 16 > January 2015. 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