[CREATE] Let's get this show on the road

[Jon Phillips]

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 12:08 -0500, Louis Desjardins wrote:
> Craig Bradney a écrit :
> 
> > On Tuesday 28 March 2006 09:18, Jon Phillips wrote:
> > 
> >>On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 15:39 -0500, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> >>
> >>>>>Any other propositions? Europe? North America? Elsewhere?
> >>>>
> >>>>I like the name, wouldn't mind France, would mind Spain in mid-summer
> >>>>and couldn't conceivable go to North (or South) America -- and I'm
> >>>>pretty determined not to miss the second edition.
> >>>
> >>>I would only object to a country where it is hard to get in, like USA.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Hub
> >>
> >>Agree...I think Montreal sounds like the best place for the next
> >>conference.
> >>
> >>http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/index.php/Conference
> >>
> >>Who is the gentleman at the first conference who is a Scribus dev. that
> >>volunteered to help sort out the Montreal details?
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > There was Peter Linnell, however the cool guy from Montreal, Louis Desjardins, 
> > who is one of our French translators is probably the person you are thinking 
> > of. Mad scientist white hair.. :)
> 
> Thanks! :)
> 
> * * *
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> In the event we find Montreal to be the host city of the LGM, I had a 
> first contact with Michel Dagenais, Director of Polytechnique this morning.
> 
> Here is some basic info so we can discuss further this possibility:
> 1. Time frame : between May 15 and August 15 so we can have access to 
> auditorium and rooms at a very low cost (mainly, maintenance fees).
> 2. Wi-Fi and Power : not an issue in this highly technical building!
> 3. Direct access through the Montreal metro (subway)
> 
> Acces to Montreal :
> 4. Montreal International Airport
> 5. Trains, buses or cars for people coming from the East coast.
> 
> Michel Dagenais advices that we would need to set an organization as 
> quick as possible to have access to sponsors which budgets are 
> established months ahead.
> 
> I am ready to help this organization, to coordinate some of the action 
> but cannot do that on my own. I will need people that have experience 
> dealing with this kind of event. And of course, infos on how it was done 
> in Lyon!

So great! Thanks for taking the initiative on this. I will help how I
can...I think we need to lock in the time frame and location, and then
we can sort out the rest after that...

So, maybe the next step is to look at the calendar, pick a few sets of
dates, solicit the list, take responses and then move forward.

> So, Montreal, yes, feasible!
> Plus, the time frame is during spring and summer... no snow!

I think Montreal sounds like the best place to have the conference next
year.

> Any more thoughts? worries? questions? etc.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Louis

Great!

Jon

> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > I know he is doing some investigations and I'm sure will report back once 
> > those produce a result.
> > 
> > Craig
> > _______________________________________________
> > CREATE mailing list
> > CREATE at lists.freedesktop.org
> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
> _______________________________________________
> CREATE mailing list
> CREATE at lists.freedesktop.org
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
> 
-- 
Jon Phillips

San Francisco, CA
USA PH 510.499.0894
jon at rejon.org
http://www.rejon.org

MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto
Jabber Chat: rejon at gristle.org
IRC: rejon at irc.freenode.net

Inkscape (http://inkscape.org)
Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org)
Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org)
San Francisco Art Institute (www.sfai.edu)