[Conferences-discuss] Santa Fe

[Guido van Rossum]

> > The hour from ABQ to Santa Fe is comparable to the transit time from
> > Alexandria to Dulles. I would say that this is in the range of 'decent'
> > distance.
> 
> Knowing that, I would be against any further conferences in Alexandria.
> I wonder if that played a part in anyone's decision to skip it?  (I
> wasn't aware of the distance earlier.)

[Reagan] National airport is *in* Alexandria though.  So this depends
on choosing airlines (United flies to Dulles only, Delta to
National).  I expect it wasn't an issue.  People flew to BWI which is
much farther but has all the discount airlines (like Southwest).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)