Cost was an issue with the DC discussion last year. We looked also at Baltimore. We ended up in the more expensice city. We also had at least a few folks who probably didn't attend because of it.
We've had a few requests to get the cost of the hotel rooms back under $100 and to get the cheaper rate for a larger block of days.
Right now we are NOT choosing the city. Please allow us to discuss all possibilities. We'll have a vote set up in a couple of weeks. I'm thinking we'll have people choose their top two choices at that time. I'd also like those votes to be anonymous, not big annoucments in thread. Fred Pete has volunteered to count votes and hopefully we can use the b.org voting system to take them. Off of the voting we'll take the top 4 cities, send out RFP's and run the numbers.
I checked with the Visitors and Convention Bureau and discovered that Cleveland is a Continental city. If we have the F2F in Cleveland and we register with Continental, they'll give us a discount if even 10 people fly in from at least three different locations, and an additional discount if people buy their tickets 60 days or more in advance. We'll also, somehow, get some of the money spent on rooms applied to meeting space.
I'm betting all the cities in question could get a deal at least something like that with an airline.
I went through for my benefit. I though other people might also find the Nilly helpful.
Officially proposed cities (Dear God in Heaven, I hope I got them all)
Austin/San Antonio
Cleveland
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
Toronto
Thanks, Debet.
I just checked, and NOLA's a days drive from Austin.
Mmmmmmm. Road trip.
Cleveland! NOLA! Kansas City! Austin! Minneapolis! Nashville!
In the spirit of peace and hippiness, I just gotta say, I'm totally thrilled with all the options. I would go to any of those cities, have been to half of them, and would love to go with Buffistas. There is, of course, a certain amount of dodge that I would need to do in Cleveland, because, my childhood neighbors do not want to see me in a corset. But still! But they're all great locations. Yay for the Buffista bash.
What Liese said, only with "Kansas City" and "many aunts and uncles". But they sound cool.
So Minneapolis, sure, but not Richmond, Indiana.
In college, we made a midnight road trip (from Oxford, Ohio) to Richmond to take pictures of the Tom Raper RV sign.
So Minneapolis, sure, but not Richmond, Indiana.
t boggling at the mental picture
In college, we made a midnight road trip (from Oxford, Ohio) to Richmond to take pictures of the Tom Raper RV sign.
And I remember your quest to get a pic of the Westward 'Ho' campground.
Loving the idea of a KC F2F. Loving that Buffistas are considering it.
In college, we made a midnight road trip (from Oxford, Ohio) to Richmond to take pictures of the Tom Raper RV sign.
And I remember your quest to get a pic of the Westward 'Ho' campground.
I'm all about the weird-ass pictures.
Westward 'Ho'
...Now I'm envisioning a tarted-up pioneer lass in a 'coonskin cap and a bustier.
