1. UK Debian travel to Debconf 5 in Helsinki, Finland, 2005

Debconf site is at http://www.debconf.org/debconf5/ for more details.

Core conference dates are Sunday 10th July to Sunday 17th July, unless Andreas has made the same fence-post mistake as last year.

1.1. People

Add your name below if you're interested in travelling in a group.

Also fill in the dates you'd prefer to travel.

Sledge: I'll add links to flight information etc. as I cba.

Womble2: Here are the prices I found (updated 2005-03-07):

I'm inclined to take the quick and simple route, though going via Tallinn and spending an extra day there is looking somewhat tempting now.

moray: I'm planning to go, but will be travelling from Edinburgh - though it looks like flying via London may be sensible. broonie: Me too.

Wookey: I might go but haven't decided yet. Probably only for 2-3 days. I suppose I should try and sort my life out...

Womble2: KLM will fly you from Edinburgh to Helsinki via Schiphol for about £200.

Gatwick is good for me, Heathrow isn't too bad. Stansted is a little more stressful, but more than doable. - JD

mhy: I'll be going; travelling from Newcastle as usual. I'll have to check how much cheaper flying via London is.

jcm: Looking like Helsinki but I won't book this until nearer the time. Are we actually going to organise a group out of Heathrow?

1.2. Flights

Sledge: for people in the SE of England, I think Heathrow direct is probably best. At the moment, [http://www.expedia.co.uk Expedia] lists the following BA flights that might be of interest. Looks like BA and Finnair are code-sharing, and BA are mostly cheaper for any given flight combo, so I'm only listing the BA flight numbers. All times are LOCAL, i.e. BST and BST + 2.

I'm ignoring flights via Prague that save GBP 3 but add over 2 hours on the journey time. Costs for these flights seem to be ~GBP 165 for a cheap flight (evening flight from Heathrow, morning back from HEL), or ~GBP 190 for other options.

Noodles: I'm tempted to go for a flight from Norwich - it's via Amsterdam and costs £40 more, but saves me travelling all the way to Heathrow. There's a 16:30->22:30 on Fri 8th and a 06:40->09:30 on Monday 18th. And it's 10 minutes or so to the airport from home. It's close enough in timings to the BA798 that I could still meet people at Helsinki airport for onward travel though.

nattie: As I don't have large amounts of holiday to spare, I'm somewhat reluctant to fly out on Friday the 8th. Is anyone interested in starting a second group heading out of Heathrow on, say, the 7:30 flight on Saturday morning? That way we don't miss out too much on the Campaign for a Drunken Birthday-Boy mjg59 Return would probably be with the rest of the group on the 18th.

1.2.1. Flights out

1.2.2. Flights back