Thanks for the info, Mako. Let's keep this option in mind if we agree to make a bid to host.
Pine On Sep 22, 2014 8:04 PM, "Jason Moore" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for sharing your preliminary findings, BMH. I must say, you > really present a good option as far as cost goes, especially when compared > to the cost for other event spaces. > > Jason > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Benj. Mako Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > >> <quote who="Benj. Mako Hill" date="Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 05:51:07AM -0700"> >> > I'm going to meet with some people from the UW Conference Organizing >> > center. I'm not sure we'll want to work with them, but it is certainly >> > an option and they can probably let me know what the options are. >> >> I had a quick conversation with folks at UW conference services about >> this. Here is the basic run down. >> >> Generally speaking, departments have some amount of space they can use >> and schedule as they wish. I have maybe 10 rooms in my department >> (Communication) that I can schedule like this with no cost and no real >> need to ask permission. Unfortunately, the biggest of these holds >> maybe 100 people so we couldn't host WikiConference USA in the >> department. >> >> Our options for space would be: >> >> - Find a larger department with more classroom space at their disposal >> who are willing to "donate" it. I have no idea which departments are >> big enough but the Law School and Business School comes to mind. >> >> - Pay for event space at the HUB. The building is brand new and it's >> really fantastic for events. The largest ballroom for maybe 500-600 >> people would cost about $1000 a day. Smaller rooms would be much >> less. Give the budgets we've been talking about, this might not be >> a bad direction to go. >> >> In terms of housing we could host people in new dorms that have been >> built but it would have to be around the school year. Doing it the >> week of graduation is a very bad idea. We can look at the 2016 >> academic calendar to get a sense for how would do this. >> >> Conference services at UW here can do a whole bunch of the organizing >> and logistic for us but we could also decide which things we want them >> to do and which things we want to do ourselves. They would charge us >> something and this would clearly vary based on what we want them >> do. We could also organize the entire thing at UW without them. I >> thought them that, at the very least, we would handle the program and >> most other stuff on-wiki in the normal way. They could be there though >> to do nametags and registration, help with AV, or whatever. It's >> really up to us. >> >> If we want to get more serious about this, we can try to work with >> them to figure out a more serious quote. At the very least, I think >> doing it at UW would be doable. Given other commitments, I couldn't >> organize all of this, but I could help lend my name and position to >> make UW a possibility if others wanted to lead the way here. >> >> Later, >> Mako >> >> >> >> -- >> Benjamin Mako Hill >> http://mako.cc/ >> >> Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far >> as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > >
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