On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 14:16, Kripa Sundar wrote: > To make further enquiries, we (those of us who are volunteers/followers) > need to know the following information at least: > > * what part of the year | June 2006
Late June to early July, I think. (After commencement, well before OSCON.) > * how many days | Three days > * how many people | 300-400 > * how many simultaneous tracks | three > * what equipment will be needed | whiteboards; projectors; internet access; > | phone conference lines; parking permits http://www.yapc.org/venue-reqs.txt has the full list. The key thing missing from above is a venue to hold dinner for everyone. Toronto did this with the cruise. We should steal that idea: Boston Light and back would be great. > Also, rather than several of us making independent and overlapping and > inconsistent enquiries, I suggest that we form a small exploratory > committee. I volunteer for the committee, obviously. Sure, why not. I haven't volunteered for anything I'm horribly unqualified for in days. I poked around MIT's conference site. They have everything we need (even a couple of large hotels right next to campus), but we need 1) An official sponsor. SIPB might qualify, at a stretch. Some tenured faculty member would probably work better. 2) Some way to convince them not to charge us their usual rates. --kag _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
