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[Thomas Gramstad <thomas AT ifi.uio.no>]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Oliver Propst wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:50 PM, Thomas Gramstad 
> <thomas AT ifi.uio.no>
>  wrote:
> > Is there a list over cheap hotels and hostels within walking
> > distance of Humanisten? Or one or two that are particularly
> > recommendable?
>
> We had this [1] page last year with the info you are looking for. We
> definitely want to have a similar
> resource this year, I guess its mostly a matter of checking that the
> info is still valid then its more or less a matter of copy the info
> into our *new* site, thanks for bringing this up.
>
> 1 https://fscons.org/2013/practical_info/accommodation.html

Perfect!

Consider Hotel Eklanda checked to be valid. :)

> > Which (how many) days will FSCONS take place -- only saturday
> > and sunday, or also some program on friday evening?

> The dates for the conference this year (as stated on the
> website) are October 31-November 02, thus we will have a
> program in Friday. Traditionally we have had workshops and a
> social welcoming event on Friday evening (I know there will be
> a social event on Friday evening this year). For more details I
> would suggest to either contact the program committee or wait
> until we have published a final schedule, something that should
> happen in a not to distant future.

> > suggest to have some "real" program on friday evening, so as
> > to spread things out a little bit, otherwise saturday and
> > sunday feels very compact or compressed :)

> This is new feeback.

The video feed later helps to make one feel that one doesn't
lose parallel sections. :)
Anyway, I like three days rather than two.
I remember one year it was four days -- I believe Stallman
was there on thursday + 1-2 workshops.

Thomas