On 22.09.2014 16:44, Kerstin Kollmann wrote: > > On 22/09/2014 16:36, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >> Next, we discussed the location question. I mentioned that we had been >> in discussions with several different onsite teams who had approached >> us. Most teams found that they were not really prepared yet for running >> the onsite work group. Only a team from Vienna is still interested. >> >> There are also discussions with the Berlin team on whether they >> would want to work as onsite team under the new model. >> >> For Vienna I had done some research on venues and found two hotels as >> well as two convention centers which could hold a 1000 attendee >> conference. We have not reached out to those yet to see which dates >> would be available, since we're still waiting for confirmation from >> the onsite team. > > Interesting, there's been no mention of this at any of the recent Python User > Group meet-ups. Is PyUGAT (http://pyug.at/) even involved in this at all?
I don't know, since Fabio is leading the discussions. I just did a bit of research to get a feeling for the availability of such venues in Vienna. > Would also be interesting to know which venues you found that you thought were > suitable for a conference like this! Viennese local here, fwiw. Here's the research info I had sent to the EPS board list: """ Most open source events appear to happening at the: * FH Technikum Wien: http://www.technikum-wien.at/ They don't have a information about the lecture room sizes only and the events are usually in the 100-300 attendee range, so probably not suited for a EuroPython. The University Vienna would probably have large enough auditoriums, but again, I couldn't find any details. I then found these two conference hotels: * http://www.austria-trend.at/Hotel-Savoyen-Vienna/en/seminar.asp * http://www.austria-trend.at/eventhotel-pyramide/en/seminar.asp The second one is a little larger and has a quite spectacular architecture. The room prices are reasonable, so at least those could be contacted for quotes. And, of course, there's a Vienna Congress Center: * http://www.messecongress.at/ which has room for up to 3000 attendees. They also have prices online: * http://www.messecongress.at/nt/download/congresscenter/raum-preisliste.pdf The whole building can be had for around 20k EUR per day (without catering), so that's around 100-140k EUR for 5 days conference + sprints; but we'd probably not need the whole building. Catering probably costs another 100k EUR, so we'd be at around 200k EUR for the venue. There's also the Austria Center Vienna: * https://www.acv.at/ The link didn't work, so couldn't check the location, but it seems to be at a similar scale as the above congress center. and, much more Vienna style: * http://www.hofburg.com/ With large rooms: http://www.hofburg.com/raeume/raumplaene_und_details but way too expensive for us: http://www.hofburg.com/organisieren/preise/kongress__tagung Here's a conference calendar I found, which lists some additional locations: http://convention.austria.info/de/kongress-kalender """ The https://www.acv.at/ link does work now, so I can confirm that it's definitely suitable for EuroPython size conferences. However, looking at their packages, it's probably too expensive as well: https://www.acv.at/planen/packages/Konferenzpackage20141.html unless we get a good deal. > Thanks for the notes, btw. Best Regards, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg Director EuroPython Society http://www.europython-society.org/ _______________________________________________ EuroPython-Improve mailing list EuroPython-Improve@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
