I just wanted to chime in from downtown Toronto -- I certainly welcome meeting outside of my fair city, and prefer locales that can be reached via train (Ottawa, Montreal, Kingston, Sudbury). Porter airlines is also good, but sadly, they don't fly to Sudbury.

Kim

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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of MJ Suhonos
Sent: January 20, 2010 10:17 AM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Location of the first Code4Lib North meeting?

I think mode of transportation is something to consider; for those of us in South/Eastern Ontario, most of the cities are relatively reachable within a few hours by ground (excepting Sudbury, unfortunately).

However, for those out-of-province coming via air transport, Kingston is at least 2h from the closest major airport (Ottawa).  [NB: don't get me wrong; as a Queen's graduate, I love Kingston very much].

So, in the name of practicality, one of the larger cities -- Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal -- probably makes the most sense.  It may be a bit less interesting for some, but at the same time, we could always pick one of the smaller cities for our second meet-up.

Just my $0.02CAD.

MJ

PS.  for air travel, Porter airlines is an excellent regional carrier, servicing Boston, Chicago, Montreal, Newark, Ottawa, Thunder Bay, and Toronto (among others).

On 2010-01-20, at 10:05 AM, Edward M. Corrado wrote:

> I agree that the sooner a space and date can be decided the better. While Sudbury would probably be nice, it would be a tough sell because of the distance from me (9.5 hrs). The others are all doable. Any ideas on how we should decide? Some sort of ranked list? I personally would enjoy going back to Montreal and I'd like to visit Ottawa, but Kingston is the closest.
> 
> As far as dates, I'd personally like it to be on a Monday or Friday, this way I would only have to take one (or 1.5) days off from work, and, I can take the weekend to explore. (BTW: I'd like Monday better than Friday, but either would be better than a Tuesday or Wednesday (Thursday being my third choice). I guess I could do a weekend as well, but I would think most people would rather it be during the week,
> 
> Edward
> 
> 
> 
> David Fiander wrote:
>> So far on the wiki the proposals for the location range from the
>> center of known space to "let's all visit Dan!":
>> 
>> - Toronto
>> - Kingston
>> - Ottawa
>> - Sudbury
>> - Montreal
>> 
>> Given some of the far-flung people who have expressed interest in the
>> meeting, including some people in Wisconsin (!), it would be
>> interesting to figure out the weighted average travel time required
>> for all of these locations, but I suspect that that would just mean we
>> end up in Toronto, again.
>> 
>> I just added Montreal to the list, just because, hey, it's Montreal!
>> But then, we'd have to find somebody at McGill to act as our host.
>> 
>> If we're going to be meeting in April/May, then it's probably time to
>> start the discussion about site selection so that when the decision is
>> made, the hosts will have time to make the arrangements and so that
>> people travelling have enough lead time to make cheap travel
>> arrangements.
>> 
>> - David
>>