We'll be there: our cunning plan is to spend two weeks or so travelling from Dublin->Istanbul by train and then back via Athens, Rome, Lyon and such parts to be in town for the meet-up.

Sounds a possibility - any recommendations for accommodation - ideally somewhere close to the meet up

"It's a mystery to me - the game commences, For the usual fee - plus expenses, Confidential information - it's in my diary..."

I'll be there. Hesitating between biking and railways, for coming. Maybe bus. Depends on the weather, I suppose. Any advice ?

Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.

I am keeping the date in mind, and a vacation would do good. But it could be tight: as things stand in my job, there will be some delayed projects that already look set to eliminate our summer vacations (I can go to Prague over a weekend or even as day trip) and are tabled until September.

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

Oh dear - now I have to choose between Prague and Paris. I probably can't do both unless the mythical Lord of Projects suddenly lands a largeish 2009 bonanza in my lap. So I'll stick with Prague for the moment because I won't be embarrassed by my schoolboy French. And I haven't been there since '68 and might even locate some of my old film school friends.

You can't be me, I'm taken

Ok, maybe a bit early, but I'll be in yerup from roughly July of 2009 through that October...depending on when the money runs out.

you are the media you consume.

My wife has a friend who wants to rent a large (24sq. meters) studio apartment in the 16th of Paris (Porte St. Cloud) for July and August. I don't know the studio but it should be good for a couple. Rent is 600 euros per month. If there's any interest send me an email.

I told Bush; don't play chess with the freakin' Russians.

As with Praque I'm 99% certain but my situation is too fluid for me to be definite.

If I'm there I'm sure I can help ceebs find a beer or ten and if anyone else wants to tag along they're welcome. There's a couple of places in the south of the City I'd like to check out so there may be a diversion down there at some point.

Be afraid of the taps in the Plassy-Home. I nearly flooded my room cos I didn't understand how they worked.

keep to the Fen Causeway

I'll manage to be there. I wouldn't like to miss an opportunity to meet so many amazing people...

Talking of amazing persons, I met our stormy present, and what a present her mere presence is!
I now understand what Chateaubriand meant when he wrote "Levez-vous vite, orages désirés" (Arise quickly, o ye desired storms)...

"Ne te courbe que pour aimer..." René Char

Dang, not meant to be, I guess.  Just got my tickets (with 3 friends) and the Paris part is Oct. 3-10.  I should make Nuit Blanche, though, right?

SOMEDAY I'm going to rest my eyes on you people!

Have a wonderful time.

Karen in Austin

Thence comes our true nobility by grace, It was not willed us with our rank and place. Chaucer

How fun for everyone.  There is actually a small possibility that I'll be in Paris that weekend.  There's a bigger possibility I'll be in Stockholm, and the biggest possibility is that I'll be here at home.

But you never know.

Does this mean I have to go boozing with Miguel again?

Oh, all right.

"C'est un scandale !"

Well, since I, after all, won't have moved away by then, I reckon I'll be in the Linca situation.
What a major dilemma it will be.

"The womb that spawned that thing is fertile yet"

This may be tough following HUSUM WIND, the annual Woodstock version of a windpower conference.

OTOH, when the going gets tough, the tough get going.

To explain, Husum Wind is like xmas and birthday for windpower people all rolled into one.  Since it's in a very small city in north Germany, there are virtually no hotel rooms for the 10,000 visitors. Most everyone must stay in vacation homes stretching as far as 60 km away. So the get-togethers focus on the conference itself, and the companies try to outdo each other with parties and music and cocktails.  All set in the pastoral high-wind region of Schleswig-Holstein.

Then on the last Friday evening, the Windwanderers Party takes over the town.  There's live music in about 10 different venues, as the "wind bozos" (as we called the early adapters in the US) stagger into the wee hours.

The week is also highly productive, as not only are all the main players there, but so many of the smallest sub-suppliers as well.  I look forward to it like a kid.

Skennah Kowa

I'll be the small person behind the big camera... I should be able to be there.

You have a normal feeling for a moment, then it passes. --More--

I admit I'll be there... hopefully having come out of lurker status by then...

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

I've shifted my view slightly, in that my eldest Francophile daughter will start studying in Aix-en-Provence in September. I might therefore go to Brentwood to see my sister, rail it Paris for the meet, then rail it down to Provence to see the new student is well-installed.

Still thinking about it. Unfortunately it is also the time when my clients go crazy as they get their heads down after a lazy summer. It may have to be a last minute decision.

You can't be me, I'm taken

I'll just say I'd love to be there, but like Maryb2004, I may or may not be in any of several other places. So, not on the list just yet, but thinking about it.

I shall attend, and I shall bring with me one additional person.

I hope to be there, but can't confirm yet.

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind

I'm hoping to be there but am still waiting for confirmation that I can have the time off.

Indeed, it is the time that the clients wake up after a sleepy summer, and indeed, it is just days after the end of the IBC - Int'l Broadcast Convention in Amsterdam (so boring, not worthy of a link.)

But what the heck; I think I can find a train going that way. TGV me in.

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

Frank Delaney ~ Ireland

How timely, since I was wondering about cheap but decent accommodation?  Any tips?

Migeru found some decent hostels when we were looking for very cheap places to stay for the last meet up, but which hotels did we all use before and were they any good, especially price wise?

Ad astra per aspera

estHer will attend the Saturday luncheon.

I told Bush; don't play chess with the freakin' Russians.

You can add me to the confirmed list - staying at the http://www.passyhome.com/ .  Any idea what's happening when/where?

"It's a mystery to me - the game commences, For the usual fee - plus expenses, Confidential information - it's in my diary..."