Changes: - Starting time is 14:00 instead of 10:00! - More information about directions to the venue - More pointers to WWW information R I P E meeting announcement ============================ (This announcement can also be viewed using "finger meeting@ncc.ripe.net") This is to announce that the 24th RIPE meeting will take place: Dates: 22nd April, 1996 start: 14:00 23rd April, 1996 24th April, 1996 end: 15:30 (*) * times subject to change (may vary +/- 1 hour). For exact times, look at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/Next-Meeting/announcement shortly before the meeting. Venue: Mathematics building of the Technical University of Berlin Strasse des 17. Juni 136 10623 Berlin (Plenary session will take place in room # MA005) Host: DFN Registration: Please use the registration form (which will follow in a separate mail) to give notice of your coming as soon as possible. General meeting overview: ------------------------- - Monday 22nd from 14:00-18:00, and Tuesday 23rd from 09:00-12:30, there will be various RIPE working groups sessions. The schedule of this meeting is not known yet. - Tuesday 23rd, 14:00-18:00 and Wednesday 24th, 09:00-15:30 (*), the plenary session will take place, with reports from the RIPE NCC, reports from the working group meetings and other presentations. Directions to the meeting venue: -------------------------------- The closest bus- and 'U-Bahn' (subway) stop is 'Ernst-Reuter-Platz'. From airport Berlin-Tegel, you can take express bus X9 there. (X9 leaves very close to the most right exit of the main hall of Tegel airport.) From airport Berlin-Schoenefeld, you can best first go to the international railway station 'Zoologischer Garten'. (Taking train S9 is probably the best way.) From the station 'Zoologischer Garten', you can take the subway U2 in direction Ruhleben; Ernst-Reuter-Platz is the first stop. (Or you could also walk from 'Zoologischer Garten' to the meeting venue.) The mathematics building where the meeting is held, is on the north side of the 'Strasse des 17. Juni'. General information: -------------------- Currency : 1 UK pound = DM 2.25 1 ECU = DM 1.85 1 US$ = DM 1.47 More information about Berlin on the Web: ----------------------------------------- A lot of information can be found at: <> http://www.city.net/countries/germany/berlin/ <> http://www.kulturbox.de On http://www.kulturbox.de/cgi-bin/berlininfo?&pq=m11 you will find a map of the direct vincinity of the meeting site, which is marked 'Grosser Horsaal'. <> http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/BIW/ is all in German, but http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/BIW/verkehr gives a nice map of public transport facilities