Re: [OT] Ravenscar (the place, not profile), was: Re: STM32F4 Discovery, communication and libraries

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Simon Clubley" <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote in 
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> On 2014-08-29, Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> wrote:
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> I have got to ask: how did Ravenscar ever get chosen for an Ada meeting
> place ?
>
> I can understand a place like (say) York, or another university town/city,
> but of all the places on the planet, how did a little coastal "town
> that never was" ever get chosen for an Ada meeting ?

I don't have any knowledge of how IRTAW picks it's meeting sites, but they 
do seem to pick smaller places for their meetings. I presume it was close to 
whoever was organizing it (probably someone from York).

Even ARG meetings have been held in some pretty weird places. There was one 
(before my time) held in Bennington, Vermont. And one held in Sydney, 
Canada. (Not to mention Madison, Wisconsin, but that doesn't seem weird to 
me. ;-) We've also met in Kemah, Texas, as well as Leuven, Belgium and 
Malloca, Spain, the latter of which I had to ask where the heck it was. (The 
former, I didn't have to ask because the meeting announcement included 
travel instructions.)

So unusual places aren't that unusual for Ada meetings, especially when one 
uses the names of suburbs rather than the nearby city.

                                            Randy.