On 9/28/2010 1:19 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 22:51 -0400, Steve Holden wrote: >> I'd just like to briefly report back on the inquiries Nancy and I have >> been making into East coast venues for DjangoCon 2011. > > just curious - why a hotel? In India we hold such conferences in > universities/colleges - they provide all facilities free of cost (except > accomodation - although some make their guest houses available for the > VIPs), and in fact, compete with each other to offer hosting. We have > just finished Pycon India where we got three state of art auditoriums > free of cost.
The choice of venue was made in advance for this year - effectively we took over an existing contract. This is the first time anyone has suggested a non-hotel venue. I haven't really heard much support for a university venue from the community at large. They have both advantages and disadvantages. Of course PyCon used a university location for the first three years. After we outgrew the original location the conference's size made it difficult to find university locations large enough (according to the people who made the choices - I only chaired for three years). It would be best not to cast the net too wide, given that a year ahead is a relatively short planning time frame for a conference of this size. regards Steve -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
