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