Hi, Selon Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yeah, the venue (and it's potential price/cost) is the biggest risk. I > think that a letter of committment from the venue should be possible > before the host city is chosen.
I'd just like to point out that our bid *is* the result of work with the school, and a committment from the school. The bid is signed by the director or the school, their director of communications, and their head of computing. Also, we have the support of the local LUG (I have presented the bid to them on several occasions, and am an active member myself) and gnome-fr collectively - even though we did not want to get everyone to sign the proposal. The policy we adopted was that the organisations, and some key people, committed to organising the conference, and we'll sort out the details in function of time & availability when the time comes. We also have a letter of support from the mayor of Lyon, Gerrard Collomb, supporting the bid, which came in after we submitted, and which I'll be adding to the dossier. If accepted, we will be discussing with the city at the start of July the ressources they can put at our disposal. In preliminary discussions, they indicated that this would go as far as providing city facilities for conference events, and perhaps administrative help during the organisation period. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary Lyon, France _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
