[Novalug] OT: Norther VA Hotel for conference

[Dan Arico]

On Sunday 17 February 2008 11:49:37 am Clif Flynt wrote:
> The annual Tcl/Tk conference is going to be held in the northern
> Virginia/DC area in the fall of 2008.
>
> We're looking for a hotel.  We're already doing the usual round of
> tourism and convention bureaus, but my experience with these outfits
> is that the hotels that register with them are looking to host a
> few hundred/thousand person conference, or a 20 person business
> lunch.
>
> The Tcl/Tk conference runs to about 50 people for a week.  The kind of
> hotel we need is a small motel/hotel that normally books large wedding
> parties and is willing to work with a bunch of techie geeks.
>
> Has anyone on this list dealt with local hotels on this scale?
> Opinions? Recommendations?  Nasty Surprises?

The PyCon conference held a few years back in DC was a bit bigger, but I don't 
see why you couldn't do what they did. It used the facilities at GWU. It 
ought to work for a conference this size. The nice thing about that location 
is there's a Metro stop a couple of blocks away as well as hotel space 
nearby.

Is this conference going to include tutorials?

Dan Arico

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