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[edit] Boston! and Cambridge!
- Hub of the Universe (tm)
- GNU is based in Boston!
- Under one million residents
- One major international airport, less than an hour to get from the airport to Boston/Cambridge via public transport
- Slightly longer flights for most Debian developers
- Currency is just as weak as NYC, but everything is cheaper
- Small tourist spot, so you don't have to deal with 46 million other people
- Subway sometimes goes past midnight!
- Abundance of suicidal taxi drivers, just like NYC
- Many places are old and have not been updated with handicapped lifts
- Many restaurants are open past 9PM!
- A vegan ice cream shoppe!
- English spoken everyweah. Wicked.
- Huge geek (Greek?) community
- All TEN fingerprints collected at the airport! http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CWU/is_2008_Jan_24/ai_n24222005
- A couple of hostels on public transportation
- Possible summer conference housing at universities
- One-star hotels
- Zeke's lap
- Parking is cheaper than in New York; and driving in Boston is an experience to behold! But why would you want to, given the plethora of the options above?
[edit] Many venue possibilities
- MIT (Media Lab?)
- Harvard (Berkman Center?)
- BU?
- Red Hat offices lol
- Novell offices lol
- FSF offices lol
[edit] "I don't want to go to the US!"
[edit] Border issues
- DHS <3s your laptop
[edit] US Election
- Babar is likely to win (citation needed), and while he has numerous flaws and is definitely a politician, his government would be friendlier to foreign tourists than Bush's.
[edit] Suck it up
- Ubuntu already did it, so it has to be good enough for Debian.
[edit] Local Team
- Zeke - attended all 23 DebConfs
- ari
- mako
- christine
- jamessan
- dilinger
- dsaklad
- gravity
- noahm
- bubbles
- hartmans
- AlexP
- Clint
- maddog
- rms lol
- Many other non-DD interested parties
(No consent from any of the above)
