[CREATE] LGM 2012 in Vienna?

[Daniel Jahre]

Hello again,

thank you for that much feedback. First of all I have to apologize
because I sent you the wrong date.
Linuxwochen Wien 2012 is scheduled from May 3rd to May 5th 2012 that
means, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

A fourth day should be no problem, either Wednesday or Sunday. We have
to talk with the people from the location but as far as I can see it
should be no problem to host the 120 people you mentioned. The applied
university is equipped with everything a modern conference location
needs including wifi and stuff.

We already have experience in co-hosting conferences. Let me frame a
picture how it can work out.
There is one thing that we call an umbrella conference that runs the
location and hosts sub conferences in that case the Linuxwochen and
the LGM. Both are kept seperate, regarding the rooms for talks and BOF
meetings. Visitors can visit both conferences. To give visitors the
possibility to switch it might be a good idea to sync the talk times
of the two conference so that there are cross over breaks at least two
times a day.
This just a proposal, so please let's discuss it.

We can help to organize accomodation and locations for "after show
parties/come together".
I am afraid to say this but what we cannot do is doing fund raising
for your event. First of all because we have to do fund raising for
Linuxwochen as well and getting the money for both events is really a
challenge and we do not have many people involved in the organizing
team so we also do not have the capacity to do that. On the other hand
I heard that you have many people here in Europe so I hope that some
of them are volunteering to do that part.

Vienna is one of the three locations of the United Nations, because of
this Austria has to provide easy access (visa) to everybody in the
World, so I do not expect much trouble here.

Regards,

Daniel

2011/8/13 Daniel Jahre <daja at linuxwochen.at>:
> Hello,
>
> I was asked to say something to the list about the possibility to host
> the LGM @ Vienna, Austria, Europe.
> I am from the organizing team of the Linuxwochen Wien which is an
> annual event covering free and open source software in Vienna.
> Our event is part of a chain of free software events all over Austria
> including Linuxwochen Linz which already has a focus on libre arts.
> The next event in Vienna would be on May 4th- May 6th 2012. It would
> be an honour for us to have a joint conference at that date with you.
> If you are intereted please contact me and tell what are your
> requirements and needs to make it happen.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Daniel for the Linuxwochen organizers


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