2016-11-23 9:14 GMT-02:00 Alexandros Drymonitis <[email protected]>: > Hi list, > Since we talked about this at the Convention, I asked a friend and > colleague who works at the American College of Greece in Athens whether it > would be possible to host the next Pd Convention there. He is very positive > about this, without this meaning it's certain. > What I would like to ask is when do you guys think it would be best to > organize this? 2017 or 2018? > I guess both years would work fine for us (my colleague and me), but maybe > a convention in one year would be a bit of an overkill. > > FYI, the college can provide the necessary infrastructure (well, maybe > there's no room with eight or sixteen speakers, but there's at least a quad > PA and a studio, and rooms to host paper presentations and workshops - have > to check in more detail as to what is available there) for the most part. > Some other stuff (like concerts) can happen in various places in Athens. > The thing is that the college is in the northern suburbs of Athens, and > anything else will probably happen in the center. > I know that PdCon16~ was a bit scattered around NYC, and Athens is much > smaller than that, but transportation is not the best. Not really sure if > that's a problem though. I mean, if Athens is the only candidate for the > next convention, I wouldn't see this as a problem. If there are other > candidates, it might be something to consider (I'm pretty sure few places > would beat the weather we've got here though!). > > Any advice on organizing a Pd Convention is very welcome. As I already > wrote, it's not certain that it will happen in Athens, but it's quite > possible. >
well, I'll share some thoughts as a previous organizer and someone who's been to the 4 latest events. I was even about to write some of this to the list, saying that anyone who feels like organizing a convention should go for it, because, as miller says, all it only really requires is that you call it a Pd Convention :) We had a crazy amount of support when organizing the Pd Convention in Brazil as we were able to pay for over 20 international flights, provide hostel acomodation, van transportation, but I had never guaranteed any of that, and I can say now that it was q when I said I'd do it I was pretty
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