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From: "James Linden Rose, III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:10:52 -0400 Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Re: YAPC Conference Proposal To: Elaine -HFB- Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Richard J. Barbalace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe I can help. In addition to leading a secret life as an undercover Perl hacker, I'm an Industrial Liaison Officer here at MIT... once in a while we throw the big giant conference or two for industry. I would need to package this up in some creative way...that makes sense for MIT to get involved, perhaps putting an Industrial spin on it all... It would take some doing... Jim At 11:50 AM -0600 11/30/2001, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: >Richard J. Barbalace [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: >*>I cannot speak for the SIPB, but having a little more information >*>would probably help us in considering this. >*> >*>Is there a proposed set of dates for the 2002 YAPC::NA (assuming >*>that's the one you meant)? Also, is there a schedule as to when >*>various hosting decisions and accomodations would need to be made? >*> >*>How much support would you be expecting from the SIPB, or other hosts? >*>Does YAPC have enough staff/volunteers to run the conference mostly on >*>their own? What more would you need from the hosts beyond arranging the >*>reservations for facilities, catering, etc.? > >Thanks very much for your reply. As seems to be SOP in the organisation of >YAPC, the venue is the first and foremost item to secure before moving >forward in planning the conference. Naturally, since MIT is a world class >leader in technology and in supporting open source technology, as well as >producing quite a few graduates who have created much of the technology we >currently enjoy, MIT is the natural choice as the place to host such a >conference. Our hope is that MIT sees it in the same light we do as well >:) > >Does MIT have a conference office and might you have a contact there would >would be receptive to our suggestion/proposal? > >Apart from securing facilities, the rest are details that likely wouldn't >require much of a demand for MIT services. > >*>Approximately how many participants are you expecting? (I've never >*>been to a YAPC, but I'd be likely to attend if one were held in the >*>Boston area.) > >200 or so has been the average as I recall, i.e. a small conference. > >*>Also, does boston.pm have a mailing list archive? > >We certainly do :) http://lists.cpan.org/showlist.cgi?name=boston-pm > >Again, thank you for your reply and I'm sure we all look forward to some >success in obtaining MIT as the YAPC::NA 2002 venue. :) > >e.
