London can be a hassle for non citizen EU residents to travel to, since Brexit.
Meanwhile many of us are at least familiar with Brussels having gone there for fosdem for a decade or more. Rich On Fri, May 3, 2024, 05:54 Claude Warren <cla...@xenei.com> wrote: > Francois, > > Do you know of anyone on the ground in any of those cities? It helps to > have a local person in place. Not discounting any suggestions just yet, > only looking for more data. > > Claude > > On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 10:15 AM Francois Papon < > francois.pa...@openobject.fr> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I think it would be nice to have the event at places like Bruxelles, > > Paris, Barcelone, Berlin, London... and to see if we can talk with > > others open source foundation to make a common event like JB mention. > > > > regards, > > > > François > > > > On 03/05/2024 07:36, Claude Warren wrote: > > > There have been several volunteers to participate in the conference > > > organizing committee so perhaps we should start by discussing where the > > > conference should be held. > > > > > > Does anyone have any strong opinions or ideas? > > > > > > The 2024 committee considered the following factors when choosing the > > > location: > > > > > > 1. Production cost (venue rental + services). 2024 was a reboot > > (Community > > > over Code is not positioned) so we are starting with sponsors from > > > scratch. 2025 is is a slightly better place since the 2024 conference > > made > > > the European version of C/C visible to some sponsors and participants. > > > > > > 2. Easy to get to by either train or airport (giving priority to train, > > > since we expect most attendees to come from EU and only a few from > North > > > America). > > > > > > 3. A city/area where it is easy to walk to nearby restaurants/bars so > > that > > > attendees would run into each other after conference hours. > > > > > > 4. A nice city that people would be interested in visiting, and > probably > > > never been to. > > > > > > So if you have opinions and/or ideas please speak up. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Claude > > > > > > p.s. We are still looking for a 2025 organizing committee chair. Care > to > > > volunteer? > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > > > > > > -- > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/claudewarren >
