DEVCON2007 USEFUL INFORMATIONS Weather in Paris
Paris Weather / France http://www.meteo-paris-france.com/
Book A good book about Paris : The Rough Guide to Paris (Rough Guides Ed.)
Moving in Paris Paris have a lot of RER, Metro and Bus lines. To move from a point to another, you can choose the way and direction with the RATP web site (http://www.ratp.info/informer/anglais/index.php). Through Metro area, it's quite simple : information and directions are usually displayed on panels in dark blue/white design. See some examples on RATP site. You have to remaind some words : SORTIE (exit), Accés aux Quais "Access to platforms", Billets (tickets). Specific considerations about Luxembourg RER Station : maybe you will arrive at the Luxembourg station, wich have two main exits. Take the exit "Rue de l'Abbé de l'épée" and go upstairs, turn on your left, walk 50 m, go away at the crossroad, walk angain 50m and at the next crossroads, you'll probably be near close the Conference Center, just in front of you.
The conference will take place in the Laboratoire Cognitions Humaine et Artificielle of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE) in the center of Paris, France, near the Luxembourg garden. Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes 5th floor of the INETOP building 41 rue Gay-Lussac 75005 PARIS FRANCE
Streaming You can be at the sessions LIFE, thanks to streaming technology. Just go to: http://www.sahobes-conseil.com/?q=node/2
Schedule
Wednesday 09, May 2007 Time
Activity
19.30-...
Pizza Party
Place Pizza Céleste, 73 rue Claude Bernard, 75005 Paris (5 min away from conference center)
Thursday 10, May 2007 Time 19.30-... 17.0019.00 08.3009.00 09.0009.15 09.1510.15 10.1510.30 10.3011.00 11.0011.30 11.3013.00 13.0014.00 14.0015.00 15.00-
Activity Banquet
Place Bouillon Racine, 3, rue Racine, Paris 6th [Menu - Plan]
Registration
Conference Center - 5th Floor near the elevators
Registration and Breakfast (café et croissant)>
Conference Center - 5th Floor near the elevators
Opening Address (François Jouen)
Conference Center
Opening and historical note (Carl Sassenrath) Conference Center Break Rencontre: a REBOL Agent-oriented Middleware (F. Jouen Software as a Service (Reichart K. von Wolfsh) Introduction to Steel Tools (Maxim OlivierAdhoch
Conference Center Conference Center Conference Center(through a Skype Connection) Conference Center
Lunch
Café des Ursulines, near Conference Center
The motivation for R3 (Carl Sassenrath)
Conference Center
Introduction to Script Preprocessing (Ladislav Conference Center
16.00 16.1517.15 16.0016.15 17.1518.15 18.15
Mecir)> Rebol Library Internals (Sunanda Dharmachari) Break Environments - Embedding REBOL (Carl Sassenrath) Sessions End
Conference Center Conference Center Conference Center Conference Center
Friday 11, May 2007 Time 09.0011.00 11.1512.15 11.0011.15 13.3014.30 12.1513.30 14.4516.45 14.3014.45 16.4517.00 17.00
Activity Public release of ELIXIR (Maxim OlivierAdhoch
Place
The Module Architecture (Carl Sassenrath)
Conference Center
Break
Conference Center
Language Teaching Tools in REBOL (Nicolas Fournier)
Conference Center
Lunch
Café des Ursulines, near Conference Center
Presentation on Associative Systems (Ron Everett)
Conference Center
Break
Conference Center
Concluding Remarks (Carl Sassenrath)
Conference Center
Conference End
Conference Center
Conference Center
Explore Paris Courtesy of Paris Eiffel Tower News and Monument Paris Welcome to Paris! This page was designed especially for you who may visit Paris for the first time. The idea is to give you advices to acquaint you with the City of Light, and help you prepare for this exciting trip. Read on!
Prepare well for a stroll Once you have settled down in your comfortable hotel room and are getting ready to take your first stroll, take some time to dress appropriately. First, put on a really good pair of walking shoes to feel comfortable in the Parisian streets. Walking in Paris means stopping often to look at amazing details and buildings. This constant stop-and-go will wear you down if you aren't comfy in your shoes. Visiting the Eiffel Tower means waiting often over 30 minutes to gain access to the ticket booth, then waiting some more for the elevator on the way up, and waiting some more for the elevator on the way down. So to your feet, a pair of good shoes will make a big difference! Parisian weather is fickle in springtime and during fall: what
starts out as a great clear day can turn rainy and chilly in the afternoon. Pack a sweater and a rain breaker if you are visiting during these seasons. Summer is usually fine (70-85°F), August is generally hotter (80-95°F). Winter is rainy and cold, almost as cold as in NYC. In any case, take your umbrella along, it may become your best friend -- especially if you intend to take pictures of everything. Rain and camera lenses don't like each other. Paris offers a number of interesting itineraries for strollers. You can follow the waterways (river Seine, St Martin Canal, river Bièvre) or the 17-km long railway transformed into a most surprising walkway hung some 50 feet above the hustle-bustle of the city. You can also spend some quality time in any of the large public parks which the city counts (Luxembourg, Buttes-Chaumont, Montsouris, Georges Brassens), discover the gardens of the 14th district, or Luxembourg garden or else decide to learn live history and architecture in areas like St-Sulpice and St Germaindes-Prés.
Street-savvy tips Now that you're dressed and all ready to venture outside, here are a couple of useful tips: • Avoid taking a taxi during the day, and notably in the morning until 11:00, and in the late afternoon from 4:00 to 8:00. Streets are jampacked during those periods, and seeing the meter run while you're a sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic is a disheartening experience. • Taxi fares: taxi meters show your fare and one of three letters: A, B, or C. If you are within Paris and on the ring outside Paris (the peripheral boulevard), the A rate applies from 6:00 PM and 8:00 PM, and the B rate turns on from 8:00 PM till 6:00 AM. When you leave Paris intra-muros, the driver will turn on the B rate during the day and the C rate from 8:00 PM. If you are far from Paris, the C rate always applies. You will pay extra for every luggage you load in the trunk and if you take the cab from an airport. Don't try to hail a cab in the street too close to a train station: taxi drivers can't load passengers within a 100-meter radius from the train stations. Go to the station taxi head instead, or further away from the station. • French people do lunch between 12:00 and 1:30 PM, and dinner between 7:30 and 10:00 PM. If you wish to avoid the crowd, lunch at 12:00 tops and dine out from 6:00 to 7:00 PM. Restaurants rarely serve between 2:00 and 6:00 PM. • Having a drink at the terasse of a sidewalk cafe is a necessary experience in Paris (skip it between November and March though,except if weather permits). However, terasse drinks are often charged premium prices. • Although they are saddled with a reputation, cafe waiters are not necessarily rude: they're just in a hurry. So don't take offense if they are impatient with you. Smile and show them what you want on the menu. They won't return the smile, but you will get your order quickly. • In Parisian restaurants, it is not customary for your waiter to come back to you once you are served to see if everything is allright: they assume this is the case. So don't feel you are ignored: just call the waiter
when you wish to have your bread basket replenished. If you dine out at an expensive restaurant, waiters will tend your table diligently. Otherwise, it won't be the case. • Gratuity: your restaurant/cafe check already includes a 15% gratuity. If you feel like giving an extra tip to your cafe waiter, leave EUR 1 ($.97) on the table. In a restaurant, you may leave EUR 3-5 ($2.7-4.5, more if you are in an expensive place) but again, that's not expected in either case. Your credit card receipt won't show any gratuity line. Armed with these few basic advices, you are ready to conquer the asphalt. On to places to visit!
Paris monuments and hallmarks The Eiffel Tower This world-famous landmark was built for the Universal Fair of 1889, held to commemorate the centenary of the French Revolution. It stands 1050 ft high. Admission (elevator to the top) is EUR 9.90 for adults, EUR 5.30 for children under 12. Opening hours: Jan 1-Jun 13: 9:30am-11pm daily (stairs: 9:30am6pm); Jan 14-Aug 31: 9am-midnight daily.
Notre Dame Cathedral Work on the Hunchback's gothic home began in 1163 AD and was completed circa 1345 AD. The house of God can accommodate over 6,000 worshippers. Admission in the Cathedral is free, going to the towers costs about EUR 6. No elevator, people with a heart condition should abstain. Opening hours: 8:00AM-6:45PM daily. Towers: 9:30AM-6:45PM daily. Masses: 8AM, 9AM, 12AM, 6:45PM. Champs Elysees and the Arch of Triumph The Champs Elysees avenue probably only deserves its nickname of "most beautiful avenue in the world" for its lower section, starting Place de la Concorde and ending at Grand Palais. The rest of the avenue mainly features overpriced shops and restaurants with a few exceptions in the side streets. Walk to the Arch of Triumph, at the top of the avenue, and visit the 50-meter high structure built to commemorate Napoleon's victories. Admission is about EUR 6, and free for children under 12. Opening hours: 9:30AM-11:00PM
daily from April to October, and 10:00AM11:00PM daily from Nov-March. Montmartre and the Church of the Sacred Heart The Romano-Byzantine basilica crowns the Montmartre hill. Its construction began in 1875 and was completed in 1914. Admission is free, except for the crypt and dome (about EUR 5). For a fun ride, go to the Anvers metro station, walk to "Rue Tardieu" and take the "funiculaire" (a one-car train which brings you almost to the top of the hill). Montmartre itself used to be a village outside Paris. The hill is famous for its architectural landmarks, its artistic life, and more recently, for 'Amelie'. It counts no less than 7 museums! Invalides Its building started in 1671 under the reign of King Louis the XIVth, and about 30 years later. From its inception, the place was designed to serve as a home to impoverished soldiers and wounded veterans of the French army. It comprises the veteran hospital itself, a church, several museums, and the tomb of Napoleon I. Admission is EUR 6 for adults, and free for children under 12. Opening hours: October to March 31: 10AM-4:45PM, April-September 30: 10AM-5:45PM Saint Germain des Pres / Latin Quarter Even today this quarter is associated with the existentialism of the 1950's, with Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir writing at the Cafe Flore, and with Boris Vian and Raymond Queneau. The "invasion" (over the past 30 years) of luxury boutiques is replacing the book stores and cinemas from this aera, although a historical preservation association has now been created to preserve that which still remains. Place des Vosges
Its construction started in the early XVIIth century under Henri IV. It was completed in 1612. Initially named 'Royal Square', it was renamed 'Place des Vosges' by Napoleon I as an homage to the inhabitants of the Vosges region who had been particularly quick to pay their taxes. The square is remarkable both by its style (it is lined with 36 buildings, all dating from Henri IV) and by its shops and its little park where Parisians like to loaf on sunny Sundays.
Find more comments on Paris landmarks and monuments at http://www.paris-eiffel-tower-news.com/ discover-paris.html and http://www.monument-paris.com/monument-selection.htm
A lively and interesting city This is but a glimpse of the many places you will want to visit during your stay in Paris. Enjoy !
