Uri, > while back, sean put some effort into getting BU for yapc but that got > shelved.
A worthy effort, for which we all applauded Sean at the time, and laud him now again. One would expect our high density of schools to make it easy here. However, at least some of the larger local schools expect to make big $$$ by hosting summer academic conferences they "sponsor" -- they expect attendees to be spending grant money. That's not the case for YAPC::NA, obviously. So we either need to spin very carefully at those schools to get a true sponsorship, or have a different sort of "in" at a different sort of school. Some "local" academic conferences that I attend are cheap like YAPC::NA -- complete with dorm room with assigned roommates if desired for really cheap -- but I don't recall their being in Boston proper in recorded history ... Framingham, Providence, Worcester, or further. And they were all "sponsored" by a Department Chairman (or other tenured faculty member), because it was an honor to host the regional meeting of a relevant professional society. Are there Tenured Computer Science Professors (or MIS Professors) on this list? Someone who can sell it as a Department Project? [Sean might be able to sell it if there was a good strong BIO-PERL track, but I'd expect to need a stronger lever to get "cheap" or "free" at *BU* than even Sean's Department Chair. "Cheap" is not BU style.] The contacts I have aren't very current any more ... > we > have a large active pm group so i think we could pull off yapc Agreed, we've got several folks with some conference management experience, and I might be able to recruit some "ringers" who just like running conferences :-). I'm certainly interested in some degree of involvement in this. Not sure if I'd get official schedule slack to get as involved as I might like, though, but worth a try. > if we > could get a decent site (fsdo decent). Please define Decent. Low total cost of housing, transport, & registration seems to be the major driver for YAPC::NA ? Uri, please confirm. Also, What is the expected target total out of pocket expense for a Dubuque.PM member attending YAPC::NA ? > i think boston would make a great place for yapc. Agreed. It would let me go, since I have no travel budget for my mandatory training ... -- Bill _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
