This is an offer to all of you who will be staying somewhere on the way from Los Altos to FB (Mountain View and Palo Alto should be fine):

I have one available seat in my car every day of the conference for

* Going to the conference from your place

* Going to Aloft after the conference

* Going back to your place after Aloft

* Potentially driving you to the airport

If anybody needs that seat just let me know.

Ali

>
> Excellent. I need a lift if possible? Of so please tell me when I should be in the aloft lobby?
>

This seems to still be an open question - what time to gather?

I will be staying at Aloft, and will not have a car.

If anyone has a car and extra room, I'd be happy to bum a ride.
If there are no rides I'll just get a taxi, would be happy to share with
others.

On Wednesday, 14 May 2014 at 21:31:08 UTC, Jeremy Powers via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>
>> Excellent. I need a lift if possible? Of so please tell me when I should
>> be in the aloft lobby?
>>
>
> This seems to still be an open question - what time to gather?

I'll be there between 8am and 8:15am and will have 3 seats available

(want to get there in time for breakfast)

On 5/14/2014 2:35 PM, Joshua Niehus wrote:
> (want to get there in time for breakfast)

I share your priorities!

On Wed, 14 May 2014 17:35:04 -0400, Joshua Niehus <jm.niehus@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 14 May 2014 at 21:31:08 UTC, Jeremy Powers via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>>
>>> Excellent. I need a lift if possible? Of so please tell me when I should
>>> be in the aloft lobby?
>>>
>>
>> This seems to still be an open question - what time to gather?
>
> I'll be there between 8am and 8:15am and will have 3 seats available
>
> (want to get there in time for breakfast)

Agreed. I also will have at least 3 seats.

-Steve

On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 02:20:46 UTC, Lionello Lunesu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After last year's incident with my tires getting slashed, I'm really hoping I can do without a car during this year's DConf. How feasible is this?
>
> I'll be staying at Aloft. Would be great if there's someone I can share a ride with. I've also seen there's a public bus going more or less to FB and back, so I should be good there. (Right?)
>
> But how about getting to SFO or down town? Am I causing myself a whole lot of pain (albeit of a different kind) by not renting a car? To be clear, I'm not looking for an economical option, just peace of mind.
>
> Lio.

I don't have answers to your question, but figure I can pitch my daily plan.

I'll a rental car with a hotel southwest of Facebook's campus (i.e. not Aloft). I plan to join any after conference party and would be able to chauffeur people around if not too far out of my general travel. But I prefer to make such agreements once I get down there.

On 5/17/2014 1:17 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote:

> I'll a rental car with a hotel southwest of Facebook's campus (i.e. not
> Aloft). I plan to join any after conference party and would be able to
> chauffeur people around if not too far out of my general travel. But I
> prefer to make such agreements once I get down there.

That's what I did last year. I had a minivan and could have driven 7 people around, but the most I ever had onboard was 3. The sucky part is that I had to go easy on the Sam Adams at the Aloft bar. The salmon was great, though.

On 7 May 2014 05:11, Mike via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com>wrote:

> On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 02:20:46 UTC, Lionello Lunesu wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> After last year's incident with my tires getting slashed, I'm really hoping I can do without a car during this year's DConf. How feasible is this?
>>
>> I'll be staying at Aloft. Would be great if there's someone I can share a ride with. I've also seen there's a public bus going more or less to FB and back, so I should be good there. (Right?)
>>
>> But how about getting to SFO or down town? Am I causing myself a whole
>> lot of pain (albeit of a different kind) by not renting a car? To be clear,
>> I'm not looking for an economical option, just peace of mind.
>>
>> Lio.
>>
>
> I'm wondering about this myself.
>
> My current plan to get from SFO to the Aloft is via BART (SFO -> Balboa Park -> Bay Fair -> Freemont) and then take a bus or a taxi from Freemont to the hotel.
>
> It looks like one could take bus 200 from the Aloft to the Ardenwood Park-and-ride, transfer to bus DB, and cross the bridge to Facebook.
>
> But, thinking about it a little more, a car is starting to look pretty good.
>
> Mike


It might be (slightly) quicker to do SFO -> Pittsburg/Bay Point  -> Fremont.  Looking at fares costs, looking good to me.

On Saturday, 17 May 2014 at 07:49:21 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> That's what I did last year. I had a minivan and could have driven 7 people around, but the most I ever had onboard was 3. The sucky part is that I had to go easy on the Sam Adams at the Aloft bar. The salmon was great, though.

Well, I kind of expect most people are going to make sure their needs are met on transportation. While I'd love to arrange to do car pooling, it is challenging and with most people flying into an unfamiliar area...

I don't drink, so driving isn't much of an issue.

My original thoughts was going to be to take a taxi to and from the airport then bus in the morning to Facebook. But it didn't seem like it would save much money over packaging the car with the flight purchase (and wasn't sure it would go smoothly).

On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 02:20:46 UTC, Lionello Lunesu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After last year's incident with my tires getting slashed, I'm really hoping I can do without a car during this year's DConf. How feasible is this?
>
> I'll be staying at Aloft. Would be great if there's someone I can share a ride with. I've also seen there's a public bus going more or less to FB and back, so I should be good there. (Right?)
>
> But how about getting to SFO or down town? Am I causing myself a whole lot of pain (albeit of a different kind) by not renting a car? To be clear, I'm not looking for an economical option, just peace of mind.
>
> Lio.

Hi all,

I will also stay at Aloft and have a car (at least 3 seats
available). Also if somebody arrives on Tuesday, May 20th around
5:00 pm at San Francisco International Airport and needs to get
to Aloft, please leave me a message.

Dragos