Hey Folks, It's that time again, time to plan for another Wineconf. There has been some back room chatter about Wineconf this year, but no definitive plans. A small cabal of people (myself included) think that we should hold it in Southern Germany around February/March. Marcus and Michael have each expressed that they might be able to get a facility to hold it in, but those efforts have so far not yielded anything definitive (I think we're tied up in big company red tape). Also, Huw Davies has offered to help host Wineconf in Oxford; that essentially translates into an offer by CodeWeavers to host Wineconf in mid March in Oxford. However, I want to throw this open to discussion and see if others have great ideas or if someone outside our secret cabal wants to step up and make this happen in Southern Germany. Based on our experience last year, I feel pretty strongly that we need the following: 1. An inexpensive, yet easy to reach location. Connection to nice places to visit before/after is a plus, but should be a substantially secondary consideration imo. 2. Two rooms that can each hold about 30-40 people, ideally with white boards, power, and high speed internet. 3. Access to food and hotels, preferably all within walking distance of each other. Since Europe is civilized, we should be able to walk from our Hotel to the conference, to a variety of food sources, and then, of course, to the pub. Candidly, I don't know that this is all that complicated. We'll likely be bringing enough people in that we should be able to negotiate a pretty nice deal with a Hotel. (We promise them xxx heads in beds, they give us conference facilities for a weekend). If someone wanted to help host Wineconf, and was willing to facilitate a conversation between myself and a Hotel that was well situated, CodeWeavers would be happy to sponsor the conference (i.e. financially reassure the Hotel). Thoughts? Comments? Cheers, Jeremy
Jeremy White wrote:
Thoughts? Comments?
First of all, unlike last year, I think we should definitely do it in Europe this time. Just wanted to reiterate the Cyprus idea (Jeremy, please don't tell me you didn't see it coming). If it's there, I'll take care of administrative stuff (hotel, conference rooms, etc.).
Cheers,
Jeremy
Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. http://www.lingnu.com/
Just wanted to reiterate the Cyprus idea (Jeremy, please don't tell me you didn't see it coming). If it's there, I'll take care of administrative stuff (hotel, conference rooms, etc.).
Shachar, I have issues with Cyprus. First, it's a minimum of two transfers and 16 hours on a plane for me to get there. Second, it's more expensive ($1000 instead of $600) for a ticket, and once I'm there, hotels are more costly. Second, no one of us lives there; at the very least, I want to go somewhere where someone I know has wandered the neighborhood and can vouch that there are a mix of different hotels and a nice collections of bars + restaurants. For me, it will also be more challenging to tell my wife I'm going to Cyprus than to some more pedestrian place <grin>. Now add $1.74 to that $0.02, and you've got a cup of coffee. Cheers, Jeremy
Hello All, would you consider having Wineconf 2005 during Linuxtag in Karlsruhe (Germany)? Linuxtag is from 22.-25. 06. 2005. I will ask the organizers of Linuxtag tomorrow whether they would be willing to provide infrasturccture during the event unless I hear a definitve no before. Going to Karlsruhe would be flying to Frankfurt or Stuttgart and then a single train to Karlsruhe. Ciao Joerg -- Joerg Mayer <jmayer(a)loplof.de> We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.
Joerg Mayer wrote:
Hello All,
would you consider having Wineconf 2005 during Linuxtag in Karlsruhe (Germany)? Linuxtag is from 22.-25. 06. 2005. I will ask the organizers of Linuxtag tomorrow whether they would be willing to provide infrasturccture during the event unless I hear a definitve no before. Going to Karlsruhe would be flying to Frankfurt or Stuttgart and then a single train to Karlsruhe.
I have been contacted privately with an offer to help pull this off. So far, this is the only definitive offer we have to help put together Wineconf. June feels a bit late to me, but I'd rather have it in June where someone is helping than not at all. Any other thoughts? Cheers, Jeremy
Hi, On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 09:28:16AM -0500, Jeremy White wrote:
Joerg Mayer wrote:
Hello All,
would you consider having Wineconf 2005 during Linuxtag in Karlsruhe (Germany)? Linuxtag is from 22.-25. 06. 2005. I will ask the organizers of Linuxtag tomorrow whether they would be willing to provide infrasturccture during the event unless I hear a definitve no before. Going to Karlsruhe would be flying to Frankfurt or Stuttgart and then a single train to Karlsruhe.
I have been contacted privately with an offer to help pull this off.
So far, this is the only definitive offer we have to help put together Wineconf. June feels a bit late to me, but I'd rather have it in June where someone is helping than not at all.
Any other thoughts?
I'd certainly feel positive about Karlsruhe, especially since it's during LinuxTag and thus people could also visit LinuxTag... Cyprus has been mentioned a few times, but it's not a good idea since I've had some holidays there already. (just joking ;-) I can't say I liked Cyprus a lot, though. I could get together with Joerg and think about planning this event, although I'm currently still quite busy with job, new home, car repair, ... Andreas Mohr, Ettlingen (i.e.: Karlsruhe :)
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