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[Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 27, 2011, at 7:37 AM, Gary Poster wrote:

> 
> On Jul 26, 2011, at 8:46 PM, Brad Crittenden wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jul 26, 2011, at 17:16 , Graham Binns wrote:
>> 
>>> On 26 July 2011 21:36, Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> I expect it would be noticeably cheaper to rent the hotel and drive to the beach, so maybe we could really sell it…well, I'm still skeptical.
>>> 
>>> We'd be noticeably more productive, too, I suspect (when we did mini
>>> Bugs sprints in Norwich - to accomodate Gavin's family commitments -
>>> (I felt that) we consistently got more done than in the bigger,
>>> holed-up-in-Vilnius-in-February sprints. YMMV).
>>> 
>>> I appreciate his point, but I'm tempted to argue that we're better
>>> doing requirements elicitation on an as-you-need-it basis rather than
>>> hanging around at the Lexington office all the time.
>>> 
>>> Also, wouldn't it be cheaper just to fly Danilo and I over to
>>> Raleigh-Durham and have the three of you use whatever means of
>>> transport necessary to get to the sprint location than fly us all up
>>> to Boston for a week?
>> 
>> Well RDU-BOS round trip is currently $185.  Driving from Raleigh to Nags Head round trip is 450 miles * $0.51 = $229.50.  So, let's not make that argument!
> 
> $229.50 / 2.5 (two cars with two or three people each) == 91.80.  If we squish together, $229.50/5 == $45.90.  :-)

Over lunch I thought that the math would be more complicated, and did some, but in sum, I agree that transportation money is not a strong argument.  I think we could argue that, if Benji drove separately from F'burg and Brad and I carpooled with Danilo and Graham, it would come out to an average of $153 for the three Americans, if you don't add any of the driving cost to the Europeans.

Hotel would be a somewhat better argument: six nights of individual hotel rooms for five people @ $150/night = $4500.  We could probably share a pretty nice beach house at that time of year, each with our own room, for half that.  <shrug>

Gary