On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 11:17:29PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: > >>>>> "KAG" == Kenneth A Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > KAG> http://www.yapc.org/venue-reqs.txt has the full list. The key > KAG> thing missing from above is a venue to hold dinner for everyone. > KAG> Toronto did this with the cruise. We should steal that idea: > KAG> Boston Light and back would be great. > > they did get the cruise sponsored. no way they (or we) could afford it > without outside funds.
The cruise was not listed in our original bid - it got added after the sponsorship came through. > KAG> I poked around MIT's conference site. They have everything we need > KAG> (even a couple of large hotels right next to campus), but we need > KAG> 1) An official sponsor. SIPB might qualify, at a stretch. Some > tenured > KAG> faculty member would probably work better. > KAG> 2) Some way to convince them not to charge us their usual rates. > > i bet 2) is impossible to get around. mit sells out their conference > space and makes good money on it. no way they would let a cheapo > conference in unless we had a major champion inside. and i doubt there > are perl hackers in the positions we need. but we have to ask around. so > anyone with connections to the tute should talk yapc up with them. Finding connections is good. The tipping factor when Buffalo won the bid for 2004 was that they got free use of the University conference rooms. (Toronto came a close second that year, we used almost the same proposal for 2005.) -- _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
