"G. Wade Johnson" wrote: > I've been doing a little research and talking to a few people and it looks > like we could actually pull this off. > > If we want to pursue attempting to bring YAPC::NA to Houston, we need some > research and ideas in the next few weeks to a month and some time spent > writing a proposal.
Well, much to my surprise I've seen this thing take off with people I didn't even know were on the list. I've seen some of that research done, so I'm guessing somebody has already started writing the proposal. > > We would need to evaluate venues for the conference itself and track down > some potential sponsors. > > It sounds like this could be handled by a handful of people in the early > stages. If YAPC did come here we would probably need more volunteers to help > at the conference with various facilitation and people directing roles. > > We also probably want to choose a person to take the lead on the proposal and > organization. Anyone interested? Has this been done yet? > > For those that are interested, should we try to coordinate this stuff on this > list or work through other channels (maybe a separate mailing list)? > > For those who are not interested in the workings of the conference, would you > be too bothered if conference business happened on the list and at the regular > meetings? > > G. Wade I think Houston is a fine place for the Perl conference. From the little bit of research I did, they seem to hold these things in June every year. Always on weekdays. It cost about $85 to attend for 3 days. I wish they had come to Houston 2-3 years ago when I was off work. Mike _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston
