Glacetarium 2011
The glacetarium is the Acetarium's 2011 winter retreat.
Destination: Reykjavik.
Dates: December 30 - January 13. (We'll be back in time for the Mystery Hunt.)
Program Chair: Molly de Blanc
Spirits Chair: Alex Ose (not ghosts)
Description
The glacetarium is designed so that the friends and inhabitants of the Acetarium can gather, relax and enjoy good company, often in geothermal pools, in Iceland. We'll cook meals, present talks, work on projects, and try to enjoy ourselves.
Participants are encouraged to bring their project ideas, books, games, and bottles of fine duty free whiskey. We will be trying to working with a local hacker space to hold a series of talks and presentations -- open to the public!
Useful Information
- Be aware of the huldufólk, the hidden people. Skepticism can appear rude.
- Tipping is considered rude.
- The flats will most likely have wireless Internet there.
- Rent/hostel fees seem to be between $20-30 (US) per night.
- 1000ISK is about 5.5USD.
- Apparently, New Year's Eve in Rekyjavik is crazy awesome.
- Mystery Hunt will start at noon on 2011/01/14 (Friday).
Useful links
- WikiTravel page for Reykjavik
- A popular tour route in Southern Iceland
- A more expensive man-made spa
- A cheap geothermal pool
- All the geothermal swimming pools in Iceland
- The town of Húsavík has Icelandic Phallological Museum.
- An official tour guide
- Hakkavélin is a hacker space that seems to be just a few block from where we'll be staying!
Getting There
There seem to be two real options for folks flying to Iceland from the United States:
- Iceland Air which flies direct from Boston for $500 and up for a round trip ticket.
- Iceland Express which flies from Newark and can be as low at $300 for two one-way tickets.
There may be other options from Europe.
Attendees
Please let us know if you want to come as soon as you find out!
| Name | IRC | Arriving | Departing | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Mako Hill | mako | 12/30 | 1/13 | TICKETED / ROOM MARKED BELOW |
| Mika Matsuzaki | mika | 12/30 | 1/13 | TICKETED / ROOM MARKED BELOW |
| Seth Schoen | schoen | 12/30 | 1/13 | TICKETED / ROOM MARKED BELOW |
| Dafydd Harries | daf | 12/30 | 1/13 | TICKETED / ROOM MARKED BELOW |
| Christine | spang | 12/30 | 1/8 | TICKETED / ROOM MARKED BELOW |
| Avital Kelman | fiendishx | 12/30 | 1/13 | TICKETED / ROOM MARKED BELOW |
| Molly de Blanc | mollydb | 12/31 | 1/13 | TICKETED / ROOM MARKED BELOW |
| Danny Piccirillo | DPic | 12/30 | 1/13 | TICKETED / ROOM MARKED BELOW |
| Matt Zimmerna | mdz | 12/30 | 1/08 | TICKETED / ROOM MARKED BELOW |
| Calyx Clagg | ?? | 12/30 | 1/13 | TICKETED / ROOM MARKED BELOW |
| Erik Garrison | erikg | 12/27 | 1/13 | TICKETED / ROOM MARKED BELOW |
| Hilary DelaBruere | ?? | 12/27 | 1/1 | TICKETED / ROOM MARKED BELOW |
| Alex Ose | maalox | 12/30 | 1/13 | TICKETED / ROOM MARKED BELOW |
Possible attendees: Mad, Chris, Sj, Danjared, Julie
Rooms
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We have found one landlord with a good deal of space in Reykjavik. He's trying to give us a good deal and seems pretty flexible. Currently the rundown includes three places:
- Flat 73: Can hold between 6-8 people in two bedrooms with two living rooms, one of which has a couple beds in it.[1]
- Flat 71: Immediately next to Flat 71. It can hold up to 8 people. But it's only available between the 3rd and the 11th.
- Guest house: Although it's about a 20 minute walk away, there is also a guest house we can use to hold overflow. He'll rent it for the same per-person price if we can get at least 6 people. Otherwise, it should be a little more, but still affordable..
Please only add your name here after you have purchased your tickets.
Flat 73
We are reserving one apartment place that can hold a maximum 8 people from December 30th through January 13th. This includes a person sleeping on a couch in the living room so ideally we'll get two places and sleep 6 or 7 in this apartment.
| Slot | 12/30 | 12/31 | 1/1 | 1/2 | 1/3 | 1/4 | 1/5 | 1/6 | 1/7 | 1/8 | 1/9 | 1/10 | 1/11 | 1/12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mako | Mako | Mako | Mako | Mako | Mako | Mako | Mako | Mako | Mako | Mako | Mako | Mako | Mako |
| 2 | Mika | Mika | Mika | Mika | Mika | Mika | Mika | Mika | Mika | Mika | Mika | Mika | Mika | Mika |
| 3 | Seth | Seth | Seth | Seth | Seth | Seth | Seth | Seth | Seth | Seth | Seth | Seth | Seth | Seth |
| 4 | Avi | Avi | Avi | Avi | Avi | Avi | Avi | Avi | Avi | Avi | Avi | Avi | Avi | Avi |
| 5 | Christine | Christine | Christine | Christine | Christine | Christine | Christine | Christine | Christine | |||||
| 6 | Daf | Daf | Daf | Daf | Daf | Daf | Daf | Daf | Daf | Daf | Daf | Daf | Daf | Daf |
| 7 | maalox | mollydb | mollydb | mollydb | mollydb | mollydb | mollydb | mollydb | mollydb | mollydb | mollydb | mollydb | mollydb | mollydb |
| 8(couch) | Danny | Danny | Danny | Danny |
Flat 71
There is an apartment next door from the same landlord that can hold 10 people that will be available from the 3rd of January through the 13th. As soon as we get 4-5 people who've signed up for this, we'll put a deposit down to reserve the space for the whole period. Please sign up quickly so we can make sure we get it before someone else does!
Since the house is not available until 1/3, the owner said that we can stay at his other guest house (20-25mins away) until the 3rd for the same price. Let Mika or Mako know if you want to rent the place. Please add your name to the list in the next box if you'll need this.
Please only add your name here after you have purchased your tickets.
| Slot | 1/3 | 1/4 | 1/5 | 1/6 | 1/7 | 1/8 | 1/9 | 1/10 | 1/11 | 1/12 |
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| 1 | Matt | Matt | Matt | Matt | Matt | Matt | ||||
| 2 | Calyx | Calyx | Calyx | Calyx | Calyx | Calyx | Calyx | Calyx | Calyx | Calyx |
| 3 | Erik | Erik | Erik | Erik | Erik | Erik | Erik | Erik | Erik | Erik |
| 4 | Danny | Danny | Danny | Danny | Danny | Danny | Danny | Danny | Danny | Danny |
| 5 | maalox | maalox | maalox | maalox | maalox | maalox | maalox | maalox | maalox | maalox |
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Guest House/Other Options
If you need a room in the guest house, put requests down here. We'll try to aggregate these and get these to the landlord and will let folks know. We're currently under the impression that we will have plenty of space:
- Hillary: 12/27 -> 1/1
- Erik: 12/27 -> /1/3
- Maalox: 12/31 ->1/3
There are hostels and are other apartments for people that want to come for period from December 30 through January 1st. Folks can expect to pay between US $20-35 per night in shared apartment or hostel. Mako and Mika will not arrange these other accomidation though. Obviously, the bigger the place, the cheaper the per-person/per-night cost.
Costs
The current plan is going to be to pool the total cost, split by the number of total person nights, and then charge people by the number of nights they will stay.
- Flat 73: The cost is 1380GBP(about 2200USD) for the entire period which works around to around $20/night/person if the place has eight people sleeping in.
- Flat 71: The price is 790GBP/week, 120GBP/weekday, and 160GBP/weekend.
The total costs are GBP 2530 for the two periods in the times listed in the boxes below. With 5 slots fully filled in the second house we will have, the cost will be about USD $27 per person, per night. With all ten slots filled, the cost will be about US $20 per person, per night. This is subject to changes in the GBP/USD exchange rate.
Activities
Folks should brainstorm ideas of things they might like to coordinate while there.
- I want to read and talk about a few academic papers about free software! (Mako)
- Fish Fillets and other puzzles
- I want to write an academic paper about public health, computer security, quarantine, and compulsory vaccination. I also want to work on other writing projects. (schoen)
- I'd like to write a draft of an academic (or non-academic!) law-review style paper about how the porn industry has moved from highly centralized to largely decentralized personality-based economics models that employ many more people due, at least in part, to a lack of ability to enforce copyright claims. I want to suggest that this is a model that other cultural industries (e.g., music) might follow. (Mako)
Talks
We're going to be running a series of talks during the trip. We're going to coordinate with a local hacker space so that these talks are also open to the general public and maybe in a local hacker space (currently only two blocks away) wherever possible.
Molly de Blanc will be the program chair and will be coordinating and scheduling talks and helping select among the suggestions here.
- Try out some new talk about Confronting Reality about social science on free software and how we can use it (Mako)
- Prison blogging -- a report on the Between the Bars project. (Mako)
- Prison nutrition (report on project to teach prisoners nutrition). (Mika)
- Geek nutrition (report on a survey of geek eating habits). (Mika)
- Reprising HTTPS Ubiquitous and Fragile from HOPE (schoen)
- Someone should maybe give an overview about the Acetarium if we're giving a talk at the hack space?
