Ricardo,
As I said, I proposed that idea *a long time ago* - in 2010 to be
exactly. I dig out the post I've made in msx.org:
http://www.msx.org/forum/msx-talk/general-discussion/msx-rioworld-2014-everyone-please-read
I'm sorry to hear that you guys are having problems with Graham Bell
school... sounded as a really nice location. Maybe would be worth
asking about how people organized the "canal-3" meeting? It was
somewhere near (I think in the same street as Graham Bell), but I
don't know for sure.
One place near Maracanã, which I'm negotianting with them as a
possible location to "Joga Brasil" (To those who don't know what this
is, is a brazilian games development event) - is the University
"Veiga de Almeida". Maybe if I manage to close the deal to my event,
I'd be able to propose a MSX Rio there...? I can't promess anything,
it's been over a month I've been talking to them through emails, and
haven't even met someone face to face yet.
Another place is the SENAI, also near Maracanã. If you want, I can
pass along a contact I have there - but be warned, those guys are
slow and not very reliable (I talked to them for over 4 months, 2
years in a row, and couldn't make JB there because the space they
promised me was later used as a storage room) - but they have a room
where they make regular expositions, and that room could easily host
an MSX meeting event.
Anyway, I'm busy as hell here - between making my games, university
and other works, I can barely sleep (who said Brazil only starts
after Carnival...?) - let alone organize an MSX meeting... and for
what I had in mind, I don't think there is enough time now to do it
(even for people outside Brazil, buying *now* tickets and reserving
hotels to june will be a hard task).
If this event was organized a year ago, or more, I think it could be
easily done. If anyone wants to try it, be my guest. There are places
where it can be held (both I mentioned are free, btw) but I think the
timing now is wrong, concerning people outside Brazil.
Unless there is someone coming from outside to the World Cup (let us
know!), I don't think now its the best time to get tickets to Brazil.
Best regards,
SLotman
Icon Games (http://www.icongames.com.br)
MSX Files & Megaram Project ( http://msx.icongames.com.br/ )
At 12:40 AM 06/01/14, you wrote:
>SLotman,
>
>It's very difficult to have any MSX meetings near Maracanã Stadium.
>Talk is cheap, show us the place... We have UERJ (university), which
>isn't exactly cheap to rent a room or two, to a MSX meeting. We used a
>room in the Physics' Institute in 1998, and it wasn't exactly pleasant
>to us... And the rules to hire any government's space (UERJ belongs to
>the Rio de Janeiro's state) to a particular event changed. I tried the
>school where my wife works, it's in Vila Isabel, close to Maracanã
>Stadium (and a hospital too), but her boss told her that today is
>nearly impossible.
>
>In the beginning of 2013, people from SESC Engenho de Dentro (which
>rents a room for us with a reasonable price) told me that they won't
>rent that room anymore, due to changes in the room's shape. So, we
>started again to find another place to have our MSX meetings, the
>MSXRio. I found a very nice school, near Maracanã. It's a secondary
>school (Colégio Graham Bell), a bit more expensive than SESC Engenho
>de Dentro, but it's near metro and train stations, and close to
>Maracanã Stadium. We had 2 meetings there, in 2013. But the teachers'
>co-op which manages the school are in a quarrel with the union who
>owns the school. As the director said to me, maybe by the end of 2014
>we can have the MSX meeting again in Graham Bell, but it's too
>difficult to talk about dates.
>
>Finally, we got a big room in SESC Madureira, which is far from the
>centre (even more far than Engenho de Dentro), but maybe it's the best
>place that we'll have since 1997. And it's close to most of the
>MSX-freaks' homes. So, if anybody wants to hire a MSX meeting during
>the World Cup in Rio, please tell me, I think I can handle a fifth
>meeting in SESC Madureira. Our dates are:
>
>15th February (Saturday)
>2nd and 3rd May (Friday and Saturday, after Labor Day - holiday).
>18th October (Saturday)
>
>RetroRio (which is like MSXRio but it's not MSX restricted) will be
>held in the same place by 16th August.
>
>Hope everybody can come to one of our meetings, even Slotman, who are
>always too busy to attend any MSX meetings. =)
>
>We won't have any meetings during the World Cup. Maybe I'll be in
>Europe during this period. (And I'm going to Netherlands too! =D) If
>anyone wants to manage this meeting, be my guest, amaze me. ;-)
>
>Hmm... That's all.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Ricardo.
>
>Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro - r...@email.com.br
>ICQ: 3635907 - GTalk: ricardojpinhe...@gmail.com
>Ecclesia Reformata, Semper Reformanda
>
>
>2014/1/5 The MSX Files <msxfi...@icongames.com.br>:
>> Some years ago, I posted on MSX.org about doing an "international" MSX
>> meeting, during the world cup, so people in Brazil for the WC could meet us
>> "Fudebas".
>>
>> The idea I proposed was to take the small break in the World Cup after the
>> 'groups stage' is over (usually a week, so tourists can see the
country) and
>> do the event somewhere near Maracanã Stadium, so it would be somewhere easy
>> to be found by tourists...
>>
>> ...the idea was not very well received, and some points raised
were actually
>> very good: mainly prices in general (usually during world cup prices are
>> much higher than normal for flights, hotels, etc) - and the huge ammount of
>> people attending to the world cup, making it difficult to get anywhere.
>>
>> I then gave up on the idea. If someone wants to do it, then by
all means, do
>> it - the way my year started, I'll probably be too busy - maybe even to
>> attend to an MSX meeting :(
>>
>>
>> At 10:13 PM 05/01/14, you wrote:
>>>Hi everyone,
>>>
>>>Who among you will come to Brazil for the FIFA World cup 2014 ?
>>>
>>>On June 13, we will have the match of Spain x Netherlands in Salvador, a
>>>bit far from São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro...
>>>
>>>We will also have Argentina, England, France, Italy, Japan and South Korea,
>>>all MSX-ish countries.
>>>
>>>Perhaps a good opportunity to personally meet. Or for you collectors to buy
>>>Brazilian MSX computers and cartridges.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>Werner
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>>
>> SLotman
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