for 4.2 sprint, accommodations around Moutain View

[Sean Farley]

Martin von Zweigbergk via Mercurial-devel
<mercurial-devel at mercurial-scm.org> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 10:15 AM FUJIWARA Katsunori <foozy at lares.dti.ne.jp>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi, devels
>>
>> Now, I'm looking for accommodations for upcoming 4.2 sprint, and
>> surprised by high price hotel fee in Mountain View :-)
>>
>
> Yes :-(
>
>
>>
>> Would you have any information about:
>>
>>   - reasonable (often used) accommodations for events at google in
>>     Mountain View
>>
>
> I don't know much about this, sorry. I stayed at Hotel Avante when I
> interviewed here ~6 years ago. I was happy with it. It's very close to
> where I now live, so if anyone decides to stay there, I could probably
> drive 3-4 of them from there to the office.
>
> I should also say that it has turned out to be much harder than I had
> expected to find a large conference room anywhere in Mountain View or
> Sunnyvale. It's still unclear exactly where it will be, but in will be
> somewhere around the Googleplex
> <https://www.google.com/maps/place/Googleplex/@37.4219999,-122.0862462,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x808fba02425dad8f:0x6c296c66619367e0!8m2!3d37.4219999!4d-122.0840575>
> or
> the Tech Corners
> <https://www.google.com/maps/place/Google+Tech+Corners+4/@37.4035095,-122.0617234,13z/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x808fb7a66e290ba1:0x772b0845c961c17c!2sGoogle+Tech+Corners+4!8m2!3d37.4034662!4d-122.0333205!3m4!1s0x808fb7a66e290ba1:0x772b0845c961c17c!8m2!3d37.4034662!4d-122.0333205>
>  area.
>
>
>>
>>   - which (public) traffics are convenience around Mountain View
>>
>
> It's pretty bad here. I checked how to get from my home (just as an
> example) to Googleplex. It's 11 minutes by car and 1 hour by transit.
> However, if the event ends up being in the Tech Corners area, then the
> light rail should be a decent option (the Moffet Park stop) if you can stay
> somewhere close to one of its other stops, such as downtown Mountain View.

I think we should set up (perhaps on the wiki) people driving from the
city. I can pick up 4 passengers on my way down. I know Erik has a car
so I think we could make something work with shuttling people that way.