Re: [93attendees] so, was there any crime?

> On 24 Jul 2015, at 10:37, Randall Gellens <randy@qti.qualcomm.com> wrote:
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> At 11:13 AM +0200 7/24/15, Aaron Falk wrote:
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>> I saw a great deal of FUD about the dangers of Prague (or cities, in general), pickpockets and such.  In my experience, this has been a great city for an IETF and I'd love to come back.  The hotel was nice, the food and beer were cheap, the city is attractive, the flight was reasonable cost.  As most folks have experienced, there were some bumps (hotel reservations, network stability) but they seemed transient and fixable in a future visit.  Did the threats of pickpockets materialize?
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> I hope you're not suggesting that pickpockets are nonexistent here. At previous IETFs here there were a number of IETF participants who reported being victimized.  (Not that this is unique to Prague in any way.)  To characterize cautions against pickpockets as FUD seems a bit dismissive.  I hope that no participant was victimized, and that perhaps the cautions helped.

I’m aware of one delegate who was relieved of his wallet from his front jeans pocket.

> As European locations go, Prague seems on the whole OK.  As with every location, it has both advantages and disadvantages.  The difficulty in finding non-smoking restaurants, and the amount of smoke present in various locations within the hotel, were problems for me, but not sufficient to rule out Prague again.  The fact that we were given transit passes was a definite advantage.

The transit passes were great to have. Of course we could have just bought them, but to have them given out freely encouraged us to explore the city. I know of some who went to venues right at the end of the tracks! I hope such a system is repeated at future events; it was great to have. Thank you!

The smoking is interesting. Most places I went didn’t have smoking, or had enough separation. There were a couple that were smoking throughout, including the - rather oddly named - Prague Beer Museum. In a way, while I don’t like smoking bars, it was interesting to relive the 1990’s and smoky bars again. Maybe that was the museum part :)

> You say that the network problems are fixable on a future visit. From the NOC reports, I'd say that depends on if the hotel's provider replaces the APs, or guests bring their own APs (which I regret not doing).

Yes, the ietf-hotel SSID was rather flaky. The main ietf/eduroam SSID was generally very good though, which is what really matters. Again, a big thank you to the operators :)

Tim

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