If you are interested in location selection, I'd suggest contacting Bill Munson to get on next year's committee. You can see from the thread, everyone has some thoughts about it. This year's committee met the day before the event to discuss next year's options. That's one of the reasons it's important to have good representation on the committee. Several locations were considered, including some of those mentioned here. The list also included Washington State, Michigan State, Richmond, Austin, U. of RI, Chicago, Boston, SUNY Binghamton, Penn State etc.. This is how we selected OSU for 2011 and it was agreed that we should at least consider the following when selecting the next location(s): 1.) Inexpensive (relatively speaking) to get there. Not just to the airport, but from the airport to the campus. 2.) University locations only (non-commercial/corporate) to avoid/neutralize conflicts of some sort. 3.) Towards the center of the country to avoid losing attendees from the opposite coast. 4.) Airport relatively close to the campus (like less than 30 minutes if possible) 5.) Excellent Facilities at a reasonable price. Each attending committee member had 2 votes (first and second choice). U. of Kentucky, OSU, and U. of Nebraska (Omaha campus) took the top 3 votes in that order. Bill's 2012 committee is already working on these for next year. It's not always possible to get the dates, price, etc, which is the reason for the backups. BTW, Rice, UT(Austin), Michigan State, U of Arkansas, UMKC, were also on the short list. So plenty of options were on the table. I hope this helps. Len In a message dated 8/2/2011 6:11:43 P.M. Central Daylight Time, ric...@panix.com writes:
On: Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 01:44:33PM -0500,David Boyes Wrote: } University of Wisconsin would be a good choice for next year... Strong VM ties (TCP/IP) there too. } Madison is one of my favorite places in the US, but it tends to be hard to get to cheaply (cheap is a big factor for Workshop). Current discussion has University of Kentucky as top candidate, Ohio State again, or University of Nebraska, but I'd go to Madison in a heartbeat. Nothing fixed in stone yet - we gotta go out and check it out -but UK did some awesome Workshops in the past. Those folks know how to throw a party - the BBQ at the last one was legendary. } In order not to derail this list, I'd strongly encourage anyone who's interested in VM Workshop to sign up for the VMWKSHOP mailing list (at vm.marist.edu). Better yet, volunteer! Gets you free shirt, first shot at the beer, fame... well, at least for lots of tech dudes. 8-) Please also consider furthur south so I could go. Mabe Orlando. Is there a VM using school in south Florida? -- Rich Greenberg Sarasota, FL, USA richgr atsign panix.com + 1 941 378 2097 Eastern time. N6LRT I speak for myself & my dogs only. VM'er since CP-67 Canines: Val, Red, Shasta, Zero & Casey (At the bridge) Owner:Chinook-L Canines: Red & Cinnar (Siberians) Retired at the beach Asst Owner:Sibernet-L
