On Tuesday 20 February 2007 23:18:14 Jeremy White wrote:
With Amsterdam, we may yet need to either shift off a weekend, or find a conference location. (That shouldn't be hard; pretty much any hotel is happy to host a conference like this).
Yes, though a hotel with conference facilities would be more expensive. I'm exploring Utrecht a bit more now, they tell me weekends are possible but 50 people is not enough to keep security around fulltime. A way around that would be to piggyback on a bigger conference, of which there are plenty around that time I am told.
The ISP for higher education in the Netherlands has a streaming MPEG video encoder on loan at shipping costs and offers free capacity on their streaming servers as well. This offer can be used from either Amsterdam or Utrecht.
Another thing we may still want to consider is that Utrecht offers cheap but modern student dorms, although their availability is limited to the mid July - mid August interval (which makes travelling more expensive):
http://www.ucu.uu.nl/Oncampus.phtml
-Hans