On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 14:38 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:> [...]
> On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 11:31 -0700, Germán Póo-Caamaño wrote:
> >
> > One of the benefits of Boston is that MIT traditionally had lent the
> > venue for free during Columbus Day.
>
> Historically there was also the presence of Novell and Red Hat, among
> others. It's certainly the case that this presence is not as strong
> now. But at least Montreal is drivable from Boston (and that's what
> several of us did in 2011). And hotels are not too expensive there
> (compared to Cambridge).
Maybe because of the same reason, Boston Summit was almost (if not)
zero-cost for the foundation. It has been during the last ~2-3 editions
that the foundation started to sponsor some people to attend.