Workshop OBI Vancouver 2008 Jan

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Location
Vancouver, at the BCCRC Jan 28-Feb 1 2008 in the Dorthy Lam boardroom on the first floor.

Address: 675 West 10th Avenue Vancouver, BC V5Z 1L3, Canada

Weather: http://vancouver.weatherpage.ca/ - take your umbrella :-)

Sleep
Google Map showing hotels, lots more in the area not shown though. A Holiday Inn is across the street, has rooms blocked off. A reduced rate available.

Click on the above link and the BC Cancer Agency negotiated rate for our hotel will automatically load into your browser. Fill in their arrival and departure date and your preference of room type to continue. You will not have to pay for the room in advance and will only guarantee with your credit card and you will have until 6:00 the day of check in to cancel with no penalties.

Join
Please indicate if you are coming. This meeting is open to members of the OBI collabortive group, and by special invitation. Please contact rbrinkman-at-bccrc.ca if you are interested in coming to a potential open part of the meeting.

We have now finalized the list of attendees. Please contact mcourtot-at-bccrc.ca if you are interested in coming and your name is not on that list.

Eat
40 restaurants in 3 blocks. Here are some suggestions in walking distance:

Banana Leaf 820 West Broadway - Malaysian food. Make sure to order the Roti Kanai (its like Naan). Eggplant yummy, as is Kari lamb. $$ Lunch or Dinner

Tojos. Extraordinary sushi. $$$$. Dinner only.

Cilantro & Jalapeno. Classy Mexican take out (and eat in). Good place to go for a $10 lunch, better places around for dinner.

Cactus Club. A bit of everything in a nice atmosphere. $20-30 for dinner.

FigMint. Upscale, yummy and close by,

See also tourism info.

Snow
A one evening snow trip is planned and will take place on the wednesday evening, after the meeting. All the information on the station can be found there: http://www.cypressmountain.com/index.asp

Cost per person are around:

- board or skis + boots: 40$

- jacket+pants: 30$ as a package, 16$ each otherwise

- lift tickets: 40$

They don't rent small stuff, like gloves, goggles, hats... but they also rent helmets.

The place is close to the city (30 minutes) and it really is great fun!

Remote attendance
Daily notes summarizing discussions will be posted every evening (PST) on the wiki.

Centra calls will take place from 9 to 10 PST every morning. Instructions on how to connect on centra: * URL: http://ncicb.centra.com (click on "Attend a meeting", you don't need to sign in) o Code: OBIVowWK

* Directions to use the voice feature o make sure you have a microphone o hold down the "person talking" icon in the upper right while you talk (clicking isn't enough)

We have bee testing the centra setup, unfortunately we are getting some echo due to proximity between the microphones and the speakers in the room. Our multimedia support is looking into that.

We will try and use centra, but if the sound quality is too bad we'll use our phone conferencing system:

phone number: 604-707-4539

password: 777888#