Irina Zaks of Stanford's Open Source Lab has offered to help get the pricing information and the contact information for someone at Stanford Facilities who I hope can answer the availability question.
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Luca de Alfaro <l...@dealfaro.org> wrote: > Great! Can you also get some information about housing, and room costs? > I know Stanford also has a lot of on-campus housing, but I am not sure how > much of that would be available, and at what rate... can we get some idea? > Luca > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:41 PM, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> When people mentioned Stanford last night, I asked their Open Source >> Lab's event mailing list, and found a couple people willing to help, >> one of whom (Todd Davies) is willing to act as an academic sponsor. >> So I created a bid page: >> >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2011/Bids/Stanford >> >> All we need is to sign up local sponsors (e.g. Google, Oracle, who >> else?) to pay for the venues and as much on campus room and board as >> possible, if we want to be sure to beat Montreal and Tokyo. I hope we >> can talk about that at the Meetup on the 6th. >> >> I'm not partial to whether this is a 2011 or a 2012 bid, but the >> instructions said that a 2011 bid was still likely feasible. I would >> prefer Stanford to UCSC because it's closer to me, but I would also >> wholeheartedly support a UC Berkeley, UCSF, USF, etc. bids. Those are >> closer still to me, but logistically they seem more problematic in >> terms of accommodations, parking, raising sponsorship funds, etc. I >> would prefer to avoid conference facilities without libraries. >> >> Cheers, >> James >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-SF mailing list >> Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-SF mailing list > Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf > > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-SF mailing list Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf