It takes about 15 minutes to walk a mile.  It's really not that far for
people without health problems that affect mobility.  In most cases,
driving, then parking will take more time than walking to cover such a
short distance.  Just saying...

-Wilhelmina Randtke

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Bill Dueber <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Because it seems like it might be useful, I've started a publicly-editable
> google map at
>
> http://goo.gl/maps/LWqay
>
> Right now, it has two points: the hotel and the conference location. Please
> add stuff as appropriate if the urge strikes you.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Francis Kayiwa <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 06:41:26PM -0500, Cynthia Ng wrote:
> > > I'm sorry, but that doesn't actually clear up anything for me. The
> > > location on the layrd page just says Chicago. So, is the conference
> > > still happening at UIC? Since the conference hotel isn't super close,
> > > does that mean there will be transportation provided?
> >
> > The entire conference and pre-conference is at UIC. The Forum is a
> > revenue generating part of UIC. The pre-conference will be at the
> > University Libraries on Monday with the exception of the Drupal one.
> >
> > The hotel is a mile or thereabouts from UIC Forum. Here is the problem
> > with us natives planning. It never crossed our minds that walking a mile
> > while on the *upper limit* of our shuttling to and from work is not the
> > norm for everyone. This was brought to our attention and we will have a
> > shuttle from the Hotel to the Conference venue.
> >
> > >
> > > While we're on the subject, are the pre-conferences happening at the
> > > same location?
> >
> >
> > See above.
> >
> > ./fxk
> >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Francis Kayiwa <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:41:54AM -0800, Erik Hetzner wrote:
> > > >> Hi all,
> > > >>
> > > >> Apparently code4lib 2013 is going to be held at the UIC Forum
> > > >>
> > > >>   http://www.uic.edu/depts/uicforum/
> > > >>
> > > >> I assumed it would be at the conference hotel. This is just a note
> so
> > > >> that others do not make the same assumption, since nowhere in the
> > > >> information about the conference is the location made clear.
> > > >>
> > > >> Since the conference hotel is 1 mile from the venue, I assume
> > > >> transportation will be available.
> > > >
> > > > That's a good assumption to make. As to the confusion  I said to you
> > > > when you asked me about this a couple of days ago.
> > > >
> > > > http://www.uic.edu/~kayiwa/code4lib.html was supposed to be our
> > > > proposal. If you look at the document it also suggests that we were
> > > > going to have the conference registration staggered by timezones. We
> > > > have elected not to update that because as that was our proposal.
> When
> > > > preparing our proposal we borrowed heavily from Yale's and IU's
> > proposal
> > > > and if someone would like to steal from us I think it is fair to
> leave
> > > > that as is.
> > > >
> > > > If you want the conference page use the lanyrd.com link below. I
> can't
> > > > even take credit for doing that. All of that goes to @pberry
> > > >
> > > > http://lanyrd.com/2013/c4l13/
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > ./fxk
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >>
> > > >> best, Erik Hetzner
> > > >
> > > >> Sent from my free software system <http://fsf.org/>.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Speed is subsittute fo accurancy.
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Speed is subsittute fo accurancy.
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Bill Dueber
> Library Systems Programmer
> University of Michigan Library
>