Sorry, I'm getting confused here - does someone from outside (the country) need to have a look at/confirm venues? I thought that's what the local team was for, among other things.
Anyway, I know most of the venues you listed and can already tell you that some are not suitable at all, either because of limited size or because of location. I don't know what the budget is for EP, so can't give an opinion on prices. (; But anyway, I'm not part of the team who proposed Vienna (and personally think it's a bold move, especially considering the local Python community is comparatively small). Best, k. On 22/09/2014 21:27, Giovanni Bajo wrote: > I'm available for doing a trip to Vienna / Wien and help visiting the location > and negotiating a contract. I can go there with Ewa, for instance. > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:11 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@europython.eu > <mailto:m...@europython.eu>> wrote: > > 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-Members Mailing List > https://www.egenix.com/mailman/listinfo/europython-members > > EuroPython: https://www.europython.eu/ > EuroPython Society: http://www.europython-society.org/ > _______________________________________________ EuroPython-Improve mailing list EuroPython-Improve@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
