[Opendnssec-develop] Face-to-Face February

[Stephen.Morris at nominet.org.uk]

"Rickard Bondesson" <Rickard.Bondesson at iis.se> wrote on 15/01/2009 
15:13:49:

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> > A face-to-face meeting between the participants of the 
> > OpenDNSSEC project. The decisions are about which date to 
> > meet on (in the beginning of February) and at which location 
> > (Oxford or Amsterdam).
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> The Doodle tells us that the best time is 9th feb (Monday) in 
> Oxford. The problem with Oxford is that we from Sweden only get 4 
> hours of meeting time because of the travel distance and available 
> flights. And NLNetLabs got no travel budget.

Can we please delay making a final decision for a day or so as I'm 
investigating whether I can get funding for NLNetLabs to travel?  This may 
make a difference.

Stephen


(P.S. Regarding flying on the same day as you're doing business, my 
experience of a trip to Oslo for a morning meeting (some years ago, and in 
a previous job) went something like:

* Decide to take 07:30 flight.
* Need to check in at 06:30 latest.  Better allow for a 30 minute delay 
(this is Heathrow after all), so make that 06:00
* Need to park the car at Heathrow and get to the terminal, allow 30 
minutes for that - need to be at Heathrow by 05:30.
* Hour's journey from home - leave by 04:30.
* Hold on a minute, these are British motorways we are talking about - 
better make that 04:00. No knowing what part of the M4 they're digging up 
today.
* Even I can get up and get ready in 30 minutes if I've packed the night 
before, so set alarm clock for 03:30
* Go to bed at 20:00
* Can't get to sleep until 22:30
* Worry about oversleeping, so wake every hour until time to get up at 
03:30
* Despite my pessimism, I leave the house at 04:00, get down to Heathrow 
at 05:00, park the car by 05:10 and am through check-in by 05:30.
* Into business lounge (the customer was paying!); drinks are free, but 
who wants a whisky at this time of the morning?
* Drink free coffee for two hours, trying to stay awake and reflecting 
that the cost of coffee = (business fare - economy fare)/(number of cups). 
 Boy, this is expensive coffee!
* Get on plane and have breakfast - can't get to sleep because I've drunk 
too much coffee.
* Arrive at Oslo an 09:30 and get to my meeting by 10:30.
* Am too tired to concentrate properly, but manage to keep my eyes open 
all meeting (with lots more coffee).
* Finally get to my hotel after a *long* day and am too tired to go out 
for a meal.

No, I swore then that there would be no more early morning flights for 
me!)