On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 2:18 AM, Stefan Derkits <ste...@derkits.at> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > in 2015 Vienna was the host city for the Eurovision Songcontest. In > 2018, we would love to host an even better event, KDE Akademy. This mail > serves as a preliminary indication of interest for Vienna to host > Akademy 2018. > > While there is already some text/info for a proposal, there wasn't > really time to get detailed information about the most important points: > Location. The best location would be the Technical University of Vienna, > but the local student council just finished their biennial elections and > I was on Holiday for 2 Weeks in May, so it wasn't yet possible to get > into first contact with University officials. Alternative location would > be Technikum Wien, which every year hosts the "Linuxwochen Wien". > > We would be a small, but motivated team, consisting of a mix of KDE > people, computer science student council members and other Free Software > People in Vienna. Additionally we have good contacts to the local > hackerspace & a few different meetup groups in Vienna. > > I as main organizer, apart from organizing the KDE Vienna meetups, > attending KDE akademies & volunteering at QtCon 2016 have experience in > organizing big international meetups in Vienna for the CouchSurfing > Community. > > Dear KDE Board, dear Akademy Team, I know organizing an Akademy is no > small feat. But I think I can speak for the whole KDE AT Community, we > would love to invite all of KDE to the wonderful city of Vienna. And we > want to make Akademy 2018 @ Vienna happen. > > You can expect a draft proposal soon, but I hope you work together with > us to check the (financial) feasability & requirements of the location. > > Greetings, > Stefan (horushorrendus @ IRC freenode [#akademy, #kde]) >
Hi Stefan! Really nice to see Vienna wanting to host Akademy! I guess you already saw but here's the information regarding the call for hosts. https://dot.kde.org/2017/04/28/akademy-2018-call-hosts If there's anything you would like to discuss beforehand don't hesitate to tell. Regards, Aleix
