Re: [Ghm-discuss] My idea for GHM 2017

[ng0]

Ignore the previous email, I just catched up and realized the
location was already set. Sorry.

ng0 <address@hidden> writes:

> Werner Koch <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 19:13, address@hidden said:
>>
>>> That was considered some years ago.  But for PR reasons we  should not hold 
>>> GNU 
>>> events at the "Linux" hotel.
>>
>> I would actually suggest to look for the "unperfekthaus" in the city of
>> Essen.  It has associated hotels in the same block, and would be the
>> perfect place for a meeting of up to 80 people.  It is a really cool
>> place and belongs to the owner of the Villa Vogelsang (linuxhotel.de,
>> about 30 minutes outside of the city).  Reinhard has always been very
>> supportive towards the FSFE and all kind of other Free Software
>> projects.
>>
>>
>> Shalom-Salam,
>>
>>    Werner
>>
>> -- 
>> Die Gedanken sind frei.  Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.
>
> As long as you don't look at one (recent) political fallout and
> failed reaction of the person in charge of the unperfekthaus,
> it's okay[0].
>
> Connections to Essen are alright for international visitors
> aswell, Düsseldorf Airport is 1 - 1.5 hours by train.
> UPF is located in the middle of the city, so there's a high
> chance of other hotel, hostels, couch surfing, etc being
> around. I only lived in the city so I just know about hotels.
>
>
>
> [0]: sources only in german, basically: some right wing
> associated group (Bürgerwehr) wanted to have weekly meetings
> there, people protested, owner decided to just ignore both
> (locked the unperfekthaus the day the group wanted to meet so
> they couldn't get in) pretended the whole thing never happened,
> later decided to publish an statement where everyone who isn't
> harcore neutral was called extremist and taking positions would
> be a very bad thing and ruins democracy. something along those
> lines. So, insults for me, but for an event I could just ignore
> this happened.
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