Support:Social Meeting 2011

Hello everyone :)

As though as the planning for the last summer social meeting 2010 was a bit stressful and just in time, I would like to suggest an earlier planning here to make sure that we find a place this time in which we can combine some sighseeing with fun and seing something from the region as well around the place where we will stay at :)

This page here can be used for writing some ideas around a possible next meeting down :) Discussions in #arianne-chat are allowed as well :D hehe

Location

City suggestions

• Frankfurt/Wiesbaden
• Freiburg
• Some city in the south
• Cologne
• Halle/Saxony
• Dortmund
• Hannover
• Ahrweiler
• Other city suggestions?

Arrival possibility

Frankfurt

• Train (Huge train station in Frankfurt, smaller one in Wiesbaden)
• Airport Frankfurt
• Car - Autobahn

Freiburg

• Train (Huge train station in Freiburg)
• Airport Freiburg (need to check if Turku/Tampere and London will be in there)
• Car - Autobahn

Cologne

• Train (Huge train station in Cologne)
• Airport Cologne/Bonn (need to check if Turku/Tampere will fly there - London flies, it's expensive but it does fly.)
• Car - Autobahn

Ahrweiler

• Airport then to Bonn (19 minutes by train, Vanessa would catch people from there)
• Train
  • to Bonn central station (ICE for example from Hannover to Bonn)
  • Train from Bonn central station to Ahrweiler (around 35 minutes)
• Car - Autobahn

Time for the meeting

Dates

• Somewhere in February/March/April ?
  • Vanessa: I'm personally "free" from februrary up to the first march weekend and up from the 22nd of March to the first of april (which isn't that a long time distance :( shitty term papers!!!)
  • Simon: I have to check again when I can get some free days. But the general date in february/march/april ist fine :) (other dates may be also okay if I can get some free days then)
  • Plassy has holidays from the 21.2.-25.2. and 16.5.-27.5. but 21.2.-25.2 isn't a weekend
  • Katie: Can't do the weekend with 6th Feb in it and probably not 18th-19th Feb

How long?

• 3-4 days like in Hilchenbach? (would be thursday-sunday)
  • Simon: Yes, four days is nice in my view :) The last meeting wasn't too short and also not too long ;)
• Over a weekend is necessary for most people who work normal mon-fri type jobs

A Place to stay

Kind of place

Frankfurt

• Not many holiday appartments or holiday houses around --> Vanessa: Checked some of the main pages for such stuff, but just found the link below wich would take enough place for us all (there are around 10 people who will maybe join)
• Appartments for 2-4 people on http://www.tourist-online.de/Ferienwohnung-Rheingau-Taunus.html#Beschreibung
  • is that okay or more independence needed?

Cologne

• http://www.ferienhausmiete.de/ferienhaus_details.php?obj_nr=31203#preis
• http://www.fewo-direkt.de/ferienwohnung-ferienhaus/p545705
• http://www.fewos-koeln.de/page3.php
• http://gloveler.de/wohnung/K%C3%B6ln/ferienwohnung-koeln-rath
• https://buchung.casamundo.de/houseinfo.php?SearchId=381919
• http://www.hotelbb.de/cms/tourismussuite/portal/de/ibe/index.html?kunde_code=null&cleardaten=true&partner=null&seite=result&ibemode=include&internalLink=/de/buchung/buchung/house-details.html&haus_id=1006125&hotelSchluessel=4&hotelSchluessel_p=4
• http://www1.ihacom.de/Ferienvermietung/Deutschland/Nordrhein-westfalen/Regierungsbezirk-koln/Siegburg/Haus_61266_1.htm&x=.wgr@oloi079B54D-inq=Ne7zJm
• http://www.bonnzimmer.de/buchung/details/k125b-ferienhaus-in-siegburg-53721.html
• http://www.bonnzimmer.de/buchung/details/k028-ferienhaus-in-koenigswinter-oberpleis.html

Ahrweiler

• http://www.koertgens.de/index.php?id=531 a vineyard
  • Vanessa visited that one already and it is really sweet and lovely there, two appartment, for 10 people at all
  • 2 appartments:
    • 1. 4 people, kitchen, big bathroom, double-couch in living room (quite comfortable), bedroom with a double bed
    • 2. 6 people, kitchen (big one), bathroom, bedroom with doublebed, one room with a double-couch, living room with double-couch

restaurant + winecellar given

Price ideas

• Hilchenbach was about 96 euro / person excluded food which was around 40 euro
  • Price ok or too high?
    • Simon: The price was very nice in my view :)
  • What is the tolerance area?
    • Simon: Hmm, the maximum for everything would be 200 Euro for me, I'd say...

Activities

Sightseeing

• Ideas on wikitravel
  • http://wikitravel.org/en/Wiesbaden
  • http://wikitravel.org/en/Frankfurt
  • http://wikitravel.org/en/Cologne
  • http://wikitravel.org/en/Freiburg

Talks?

• Do we need talks like in Hannover last march?
  • If so: talk suggestions
  • or workshops, I.e. more practical and collaborative but still stendhal development as a focus

Evening Activities

outside

• What about visiting a nice bar or pub one evening?
• Exploring the city
• barbecue? --> maybe not the right time of a year for having a barbecue, definetly related to weather and location

inside

• Playing really funny games like Bingo, Pairs or Guess what I am? :D
• cooking together?

Frankfurt

• Maybe driving to Frankfurt one day and explore the city there (appr. 25 minutes away)

Cologne

• chocolate museum
• http://www.schlossbruehl.de/Home
• Dome
• Bonn? (25 minutes away)
• http://www.phantasialand.de/eng/

Ahrweiler

• Bonn/Cologne not that far away
• nice environment
• Bad Neuenahr close (casino there, nice town)
• http://www.bad-neuenahr-ahrweiler.de/

Attendees

• Vanessa (So excited as Simon :D)
• Simon (Uhh, I'm very excited! :D)
• Marco
• Frank (?)
• Katie sure, you know i'll try to make it.
• Markus
• Hendrik (?)
• Kimmo (?)
• Silvio (?)