>>>>> "JM" == John Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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. JM> Finding connections is good. The tipping factor when Buffalo JM> won the bid for 2004 was that they got free use of the JM> University conference rooms. (Toronto came a close second JM> that year, we used almost the same proposal for 2005.) i know, buffalo won by a hair and the tipping point was its free rooms. but that year we had 5 proposals and only toronto came back again last year and you were the only proposal so it was an easy vote. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
