Hi, I have just subscribed to this mailing list and do not know the format of discussions here but hope not every mail should be 13 KB long :-)
The goal is to ask an advice. On October 26 there will be the first Russian Perl workshop in Moscow (http://perlrussia.ru/en/). Initially I expected to see at least 100 people registered. Currently (two weeks before the event) there are 164 people willing to come. I think it is great taking into the account that it was announced only one hundred may attend. I will report how this workshop finally be held later this month. But now I am thinking of organizing another event in the neighbouring country, Ukraine. By the way, its capital Kiev (also spelt Kyiv currently) is one of the most pleasant cities in the former USSR. While Russian workshop's official language is Russian, Ukrainian event might be of other kind. Just before the Eurovision-2005 (which was held in Kiev) Ukrainian government decided to refuse mandatory visas for the European Union citizens and till now everyone from the EU may visit Ukraine without visas. That turns the situation. So the main question is: is it worth to organize an international event in Kiev? Otherwise it may be held in local languages (not Ukrainian but primarily Russian in fact). I wonder if there will be enough people who wish to come to Kiev this December (say, 14th). There were no Perl events of such level in Ukraine. Even more: recently it was expected the "UA Web 2007" conference on October 29. But it was rescheduled by the organizers to next March (they say they need more time to prepare and cannot conduct Ukrainian event together with "ClientSide-2007" conference in Moscow in early November). I also wonder (if anyone from EU come) is it enough time to prepare to this trip. Air tickets from Paris to Kiev and back cost ~320 Euro; /\*{3,4}/ hotels are at the rate of ~100 Euro per night. My plans are to make one-day Ukrainian workshop free of charge for the attendees. An experiment with Russian one (where people was offered to pay any amount to overcome the 100 person barrier) almost failed: only 15% of those who decided to pay during registration really payed. I am currently trying to find the venue - there is one very good (of amphitheatre type) which costs something about 500...700 Euro per day with all the equipment needed. If some money remain from Russian workshop I'll be able to take it otherwise I will ask YEF for help :-) What do you think of all that? P. S. Act was not used because it first had to be translated to Russian. And I am going to do that along with translating to Ukrainian. -- Andrew Shitov ______________________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.shitov.ru _______________________________________________ Conferences mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yapceurope.org/mailman/listinfo/conferences
