Proposal for an AG technical retreat..

[Brian Chee]

Yeah...I've been working on getting Key3Media (owners of Networld+Interop)
to do a regional Interop in Hawaii....seems there are LOTS of things that
are actually cheaper in Hawaii than places like
LasVegas/SanFrancisco/LA/Chicago and other convention towns.

Hotels are cheaper, rental cars, food, freight are all cheaper....just make
sure you dont' do your shopping in Waikiki....basic tourist trap....even
McDonald's Happy Meals are $6.00 in Waikiki and only $3.75 outside....

Seriously, my rental rates on the East West center is dirt cheap, and if you
gotta squeeze, I have access to VIP dorms (private room and bath w/ keycard
access...parkiing is $3.00/day more....room runs about $65/night)

I just did a DARPA PI meeting there and it was about half what a hotel would
have charged me.

/brian chee

University of Hawaii at Manoa
Dept of Information & Computer Sciences
Advanced Network Computing Lab
Attn: Brian Chee
1680 East West Road, POST 311
Honolulu, HI  96822
808-956-5797 voice
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara A. Kucera" <bkucera at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To: "Don Morton" <morton at cs.umt.edu>
Cc: <ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov>
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 6:45 AM
Subject: Re: Proposal for an AG technical retreat..


> Although I would be happy to attend a conference at either site, after
> making my air reservations to Montana next week, I've discovered that it
is
> actually less expensive to fly from Illinois to Hawaii than to Montana . .
> . and that's the truth!
>
> Barbara
> ------------
>
> At 09:24 AM 10/13/2000 -0600, Don Morton wrote:
> >Jonas Talandis wrote:
> >>
> >> This sure works for me. Next best would be a place with snowy
> >> slopes......
> >>
> >
> >Missoula is nice for that :)  We're still hoping to be on the air
> >by end of the year - just waiting for the go-ahead from our
> >research VP, and I'm told it's pretty likely...
> >
> >If so, we might have some interest in helping with a retreat, or
> >a future one....
> >--
> >   Don Morton                     http://www.cs.umt.edu/u/morton/
> >   Department of Computer Science       The University of Montana
> >   Missoula, MT 59812 | Voice (406) 243-4975 | Fax (406) 243-5139
>
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