I'll second Gregor's recommendation of Lisbon. Fantastic city to visit. We love it, and usually think we're going to visit the many museums and other cultural sites but end up buying an all-day tram pass and riding around on the wonderful variety of trams, funiculars and (our favourite) the ornate outside elevator.
For organising a conference: think about hooking up with Sandra Martins of Português Claro. She's persuaded Clarity to have their next international conference in Lisbon and she's the main organiser. Clarity is the international society for plain legal language: mostly lawyers, but also plenty of plain language practitioners and a few user experience people (mostly ones like me who do a lot of work with government). http://www.clarity2010.com/home.html http://portuguesclaro.pt/ I'm sure she'll have a lot of ideas to share about how to get people from outside of Portugal interested in your conference, securing sponsorship and so on. It might also make sense for you to have your conference at approximately the same time, say overlapping by a day or something, so that people who might be interested in both of them could do both. I spoke at an event that she organised in association with INA on the simplification of public communications: it was wonderfully well organised and achieved a gratifyingly large attendance. http://elearning.ina.pt/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=299&Itemid =67 By the way: if you happen to have to tangle with lawyers in your work, then I'd highly recommend Clarity. They publish a pretty good journal about twice a year, and the dues are remarkably reasonable at US$35 per annum. http://www.clarity-international.net/index.htm Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
