[hackerspaces] Idea: Mini-Camps in even years

[Jerry Isdale]

On Maui you can drive hit all the major population spots with a solid day of driving, most of it about 10-15mph, and no place with more than maybe 30,000 people.   I'd be up for hosting a mini-camp, and am considering doing a Science Hack Camp (http://sciencehackday.com/) with an intense hack-a-thon followed by a week of beach time for visitors.  I've never been to a ccc event so i'm not sure what would be involved.  Not sure if we could get enough people to fly in. 
 
Jerry Isdale
http://MauiMakers.com
http://www.mauimakers.com/blog/thursday-public-meeting/

On Sep 2, 2011, at 4:06 AM, James Arlen wrote:

> Ahh yes, I totally agree about the eastern seaboard of North America (including Southern Ontario and Southern Quebec in that) but then us crazy Canadians come into the mix - driving from Toronto west, just to get out of Ontario takes about 26 hours - just over 1900km -- and driving west from Toronto to the next city of approximately 1 million people (Calgary) is ~3500km and nearly 45 hours. 
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> The population density of Canada is nearly all in 4 major pockets (Montreal, Toronto/Mississauga/Hamilton, Calgary/Edmonton and Vancouver) and driving between those four (east to west) is ~5600km and 3 days of driving.
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> Hitting three of the four European cities that are larger than the largest Canadian city is going to be 1800km in about 20 hours of driving!
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> The difference in distances just boggles my mind -- in Canada, you have to drive for 3 days to see ~18 million people. In Europe, you can see more than ~40 million in one day.
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> Of course, this is from someone who commutes 150km to get to and from work every day.
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> :)
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> J
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> James Arlen
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> On 2011-09-02, at 6:03 AM, Walter van Holst wrote:
> 
>> On 9/1/11 3:12 PM, James Arlen wrote:
>>> Things are so much different for you crazy europeans - you can drive through about 8 countries before some of us can drive out of the province we live in!
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>> That actually is a bit of a myth. There were people from Macedonia at CCCamp2011, and the distance they had to travel was equal to about 1600 km overland, while traveling from Atlanta takes about the same distance.
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>> If you realise that the Eastern seaboard of North-America is roughly equally densely populated as Western-Europe, the difference isn't that big anymore.
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>> There are obivously lots of other things that may or may not explain the differences.
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>> Regards,
>> 
>> Walter
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