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Subject: Change of venue for November TC meeting
Hello UBL TC members and observers, As noted in today's Atlantic UBL TC call, the rooms at Sun formerly reserved for our TC meeting in San Francisco 1-5 November 2004 are no longer available due to Bay Area corporate real estate consolidation. I have arranged instead for the meeting to be held at Sun facilities in Santa Clara (near San Jose). I will as usual provide detailed directions and suggested hotel info later on, but people planning to attend the meeting should be aware that you *may* wish to fly into San Jose Airport (SJC) rather than San Francisco Airport (SFO). SJC is much closer to the meeting location, but SFO has much better direct international connections, so in general, people traveling from locations in the U.S. will probably prefer SJC, while people traveling from locations outside the U.S. will probably prefer SFO unless there happens to be a convenient flight from their point of departure into SJC (for example, there used to be one direct flight a day into SJC from Narita, though I don't know whether this is still operating). SJC has very good domestic and international connections through Chicago, and flights into SJC often cost less than those into SFO. The bad news is: - San Jose cannot compare with San Francisco as a place to have a good time, and it is virtually impossible to get around without renting a car. - We will have to carpool for lunches at a nearby shopping center (but since most people will have a car, this should not be difficult). The good news is: - The meeting rooms I've reserved in Santa Clara are vastly more comfortable and quieter than the ones we had reserved (and used last year) in San Francisco. The Santa Clara facilities were built in the 1930s and were completely refurbished as high-level corporate meeting spaces when Sun acquired them a few years ago. So white boards and phones and so on are not a problem. - Security is not exactly nonexistent, but since these rooms are commonly used to host people from outside the company, getting in and out should be a lot easier than it has been at either the San Francisco or Menlo Park Sun facilities. - Both the plenary room and the break-out room have external internet access (like what we had in Copenhagen). Some of you will find this a major improvement. - There is lots of parking. More later as we approach the date of the meeting. Jon
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