[CREATE] LGM 2012 in Vienna?

[Gregory Pittman]

On 09/05/2011 08:26 AM, S.Kemter wrote:
 > Hi,
 >
 > Time to say something about that event in Vienna, I was the last 4 years
 > there.
 > This year I had 2 workshops about Inkscape and 2 about GIMP there and 
a talk
 > about which graphic floss tool for what purpose.
 >
 > So since this year the Linuxwochen Vienna are hosted on Technikum 
Vienna, look
 > in the attachment. There are rooms enough but the organizers have to 
ask for
 > them. Look in the attachment.
 > Airport  there is one, well connected to all others in Europe and 
there are
 > direct flights from Atlanta so that should be not the problem.
 > Visa, Austria is member of the european union, so no problems for 
europeans or
 > us/canadian citizen. For the rest who needs visa, should be no 
problem for the
 > organizers of invite them if it needed for visa application
 > Hotels are also not really a problem, you can have rooms for prizes 
between
 > 20-500€ a night. Not far from the venue is a youth hostel what would be a
 > cheap solution, its not an normal one, they have only double rooms 
with shower
 > and closet in the room so more a hotel then a hostel.
 > Even you choose a hotel far from the venue, public transport is very 
good.
 > There are also public bikes available.
 >
 > So some ask are there updates, yes there are. As daja wrote no of the 
required
 > things is really a problem.
 >
 > so now is up to you to decide, we do it or we do it not. And that 
moves it
 > forward, not waiting of a proposal.
 >
 > so what should the next steps?
 >
 > 1. Decide yes or no
 > 2. Decide which day should be extra, wednesday or sunday or both or 
whatever,
 > so that the organizers of Linuxwochen can ask the university for the 
rooms.
 > 3. tell them the decisions
 >

One thing I like about this is that it tries out something new for LGM 
-- having the meeting around the time of other meeting(s), to see how 
this increases the interest in libre graphics and makes some new 
connections. We also might plan some joint social/entertainment events.

Greg