Agreed, we need to fit the best between expensive and attractive.
About the date, may be Q1 or Q4 are better?
regards,
François
On 03/05/2024 13:58, Brian Proffitt wrote:
Those larger cities are very attractive and easy to get to, but they are
also very expensive, both in terms of venues and also attendee expense
(hotels, food). You may want to consider smaller cities such as Lyon,
Krakow, or Dusseldorf, which, spending on the city, may be cheaper.
Timing will be key, too. Doing an event in June, during high season, is
also making things more expensive.
BKP
Brian Proffitt
VP, Marketing & Publicity
VP, Conferences
On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 6:22 AM Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote:
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?
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