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WineConf 2007 Fundraiser proposal
by Tom Wickline 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

Hello All, This is my latest revision of the donations page, any thoughts on the content or goal? :) http://wiki.winehq.org/TomWickline?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=donation… Tom

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Next steps for Wineconf 2007
by Jeremy White 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

I think it makes sense to make this email sort of a 'last call' for hosting offers - please speak up now if you have an idea for Wineconf 2007. But, barring a retraction, we seem to have two generous offers to host Wineconf this year (yay!). That is, one in Zurich (Google/Mike Hearn), and one in Amsterdam or Utrech (Hans). I did a quick, completely non scientific, survey of prices for a trip from MSP to each site around the weekend of September 22: Flight Hotel Zurich $902 ~$125 Amsterdam $820 ~$150 which suggests to me that they are fairly close to a wash. With Zurich, I believe we're hoping that Google will donate the use of their offices to host the conference. With Amsterdam, we may yet need to either shift off a weekend, or find a conference location. (That shouldn't be hard; pretty much any hotel is happy to host a conference like this). Have I summarized correctly? I hope I haven't misrepresented either offer. If so, I suggest we pick a location; and I propose we do that by mailing list consensus. If there doesn't seem to be a consensus, then perhaps we could shift to some sort of a vote. Does that make sense? If it does, express a preference around location, and let's see if a consensus forms... Cheers, Jeremy

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Some touristic info
by Claudio Fontana 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

The Zurich Tourism site: http://www.zuerich.com/ They seem to provide some kind of offer for group reservations: http://www.zuerich.com/hotel/index.html But I don't know, it could be the expensive stuff they are spooning you with. About transportation they promote this 'Zurich Card' which I don't see as necessarily convenient (34 CHF for using public transports for three days + some unspecified 'other discounts', where just buying a normal Tageskarte at any Bus or Tram station costs 7.80 * day (*3=23.40), with the added flexibility of not being constrained on the three days. I ate in some good but very expensive restaurants in the center and at the lake: http://www.kramergastronomie.ch/ http://www.acqua.ch/ [best during summer though] That's all, maybe some other Zuerich resident can shed more light on these things, since my social life is lacking at best. Cheers, Claudio ___________________________________ L'email della prossima generazione? Puoi averla con la nuova Yahoo! Mail: http://it.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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How about holding Wineconf at Google's campus in Mountain View, California?
by Scott Ritchie 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

Google was nice enough to host a large Ubuntu conference a couple of months ago, and given that they seem to love Wine just as much, I'm sure they'd be willing to lend us some space for Wineconf. More importantly, though, is that we'd get to shmooze with some Google folks, convince them to fund more Wine development (eg Summer of Code), and even present a new Wine/Google product in a pretty flashy fashion. Thanks, Scott Ritchie

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WineConf 2007 Fundraiser proposal
by Tom Wickline 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

Hello All, At this time I would like to make a proposal that we have a month long "WineConf 07 Fundraiser" starting on March 1st. Over the past three years all funds sent to the WPF have been used to sponsor Wineconf attendees travel and needs, and I'm sure these funds have helped in many other worthwhile ways as well. What we could do is put up a news posting on the winehq front page and also on the Wineconf 07 wiki page asking users and corporations if they would like to help sponsor the next Conf. We could also put together a "Donor list" thank you page, and list everyone that gives and any comments that they would like to make. It has become clear that travel expenses for attendees is the major obstacle in there decision on attending any conference. I know this is not in any way a full solution to the travel expense problem, but it may give one more person the opportunity to attend that other wise would not have had the chance to share in this most pleasant experience. Comments? Tom

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WineConf 2007
by Tom Wickline 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

Hello Everyone, Vote 1 for Amsterdam :-) My second choice would be Minneapolis/St. Paul http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wineconf/2006-December/000378.html Tom

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re: Linuxtag 2007 in Berlin
by Dan Kegel 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

Say, here's a crazy idea: hold Wineconf in Berlin right before Linuxtag... that might make it easier to get the booth staffed... and it might attract a bunch of not-yet-wine-developers to wineconf. Wineconf 2005 did something like that with the much smaller SambaXP conference ( http://www.winehq.com/?issue=272 ) - Dan

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