[plug] Hedzup for LCA2008 or LCA2009

[Kai]

Alex Polglaze wrote:
> Ben Jensz wrote:
>> You couldn't do it in Broome for a number of reasons.  The 
>> accomodation prices would kill it for a lot of people looking at 
>> coming to the conference, as there isn't anywhere that you could 
>> really class as "cheap", even during the off season.  Also the only 
>> time of the year you'd even be able to find accomodation is in summer 
>> (as its booked out solidly during tourist season, i.e. winter), which 
>> is the worst time of year in terms of the very hot and very humid 
>> weather conditions.  You also run the risk of people being scared off 
>> at the last minute by a cyclone forming at that time of year as well.  
>> So yeah, it's not very logistically possible, even though it'd be a 
>> nice location :)
> 
> I haven't seen a valid reason here for not considering Broome even in 
> Cyclone season. I think Broome has been hit the same amount of times 
> Perth has in the last 30 years.

This might scare the hell out of some people but have a look at the 
diagram near the middle of this page, under the heading "Tracks":
http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/wa/cyclone/about/climatology.shtml

You can also compare these two pages:
http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/wa/cyclone/about/broome/index.shtml
http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/wa/cyclone/about/perth/index.shtml

> They even have electricity and air conditioning, so a conference could 
> be held at any time.
> 
> Yep, I LOVE Broome and would go there for any reason at any time.

If you wanna hold it up here I'm volunteering for the job of being the 
primary contact because I don't think there's anyone else on the list 
who lives up here :P