[LGM] LGM in Paris?

Thu May 4 13:42:11 UTC 2017

Hi,

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Frank Trampe <frank.trampe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Jehan.
>
> Your speed and efficiency in putting this together caught me off-guard!

Well I like to check the easy items quick in my TODO list. :P
Finding a place is easy. If we do it, we also plan to do things well
and I will need to contact many of our FLOSS contacts

> Saarbrucken and Milan are both firmly back onboard, so we're probably
> looking at 2020 for Paris. The most important thing is to start building out
> a network of partners, sponsors, and participants and getting them all
> excited about the possibilities. Paris is a big town, this sounds like a
> great venue, and you have a good existing network, so, with the runway that
> we have to put this together, we ought to be able to make it our biggest
> event ever.
>
> Could we reserve the venue this far out? If so, I propose that we develop a
> formal proposal with the aim of discussing it and accepting it in the next
> few months.

Well since my contact wants me to recontact him in October because he
doesn't have enough visibility yet, I believe that pushing back a year
means also pushing back any kind of booking a year as well. Also 3
years is very far away. It's hard to know what will happen in between.

What would be good would be that by October, we know for sure about
the other places. I'd like to avoid round trips because we change the
year all the time.

In any cases, I will probably go and discuss with this person the next
time I go to some FLOSS event there.

Jehan

> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 7:18 AM, Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmottard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all!
>>
>> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:11 PM, Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmottard at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 8:58 PM, ginger coons <ginger at adaptstudio.ca>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:58 PM, Jehan Pagès
>> >> <jehan.marmottard at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Hi,
>> >>>
>> >>> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:08 AM, Frank Trampe
>> >>> <frank.trampe at gmail.com>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>> > Counting turnout is difficult, since people come and go from talk to
>> >>> > talk. I
>> >>> > would be curious to know how many e-mail addresses we've collected
>> >>> > each
>> >>> > year, but I have no idea what happens to those. Anybody?
>> >>>
>> >>> Can we at least know the seat numbers of the conference rooms of
>> >>> Madrid and Leipzig's LGM? Since the rooms were mostly filled (and even
>> >>> a little more at times, I think), that would give a good idea of the
>> >>> attendance size.
>> >>> Is there anyone from the organization at that time who would have this
>> >>> information?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 2013 is the best year as far as stats go, but some are also available
>> >> for
>> >> 2010 (Brussels) here:
>> >> http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/lgm/about/visitor-data/
>> >>
>> >> Here's the information on Madrid, per the 2013 report
>> >> (http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2013/report/index.html):
>> >>
>> >> 4 days, 89 scheduled talks, 10 workshops, 3 performances, 3 lectures,
>> >> 15
>> >> lightning talks
>> >> Hosted by Medialab Prado, Madrid (Spain)
>> >> Full simultaneous translation in English and Spanish
>> >> Registered on-line: 201
>> >> Total participants: 450
>> >> Programs distributed: 650
>> >> Registered at Welcome Desk: 155
>> >>
>> >> Because local orgs do the data collection, it varies by year, as do any
>> >> reports that come out.
>> >>
>> >> -g
>> >
>> > Thanks for all the detailed info.
>> > I have started discussing with a very cool place in Paris which
>> > regularly do FLOSS events and my contact person is very interested.
>> > But they are checking up with their boss first. Let's see how it goes.
>>
>> Ok so I got a second message today. It seems it would be ok to do it
>> in this place. Yet they ask me to ask them again in October because
>> they don't have any visibility at this point about the schedule of the
>> conference room they would lend us.
>>
>> So it is called "Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie" and is a
>> state-funded place.
>> Website: http://www.cite-sciences.fr/
>> From Wikipedia:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cit%C3%A9_des_Sciences_et_de_l%27Industrie
>> « The Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie is the biggest science
>> museum in Europe. Located in Parc de la Villette in Paris, France, it
>> is one of the three dozen Cultural Centers of Science, Technology and
>> Industry (CCSTI), promoting science and science culture. »
>>
>> So it is not specifically a graphics or arts place, but I chose it on
>> purpose and know it well because it regularly hosts FLOSS events
>> (Monthly "Samedi du Libre", Ubuntu Party every few months, etc.) and
>> they love Free Software. In particular, it has a very cool place
>> called "Carrefour Numérique²" with an awesome hackerspace and all the
>> machines you'd need in such a place, and a few other rooms where LGM
>> hacking meetings or workshop can be held without issue. The Blender
>> User Group of Paris meets there every month as well, and they use an
>> awesome room with powerful computers (so workshops can be done without
>> asking people to bring their own laptops and install stuff beforehand,
>> which is a good time saver).
>> Carrefour Numérique²:
>>
>> http://www.cite-sciences.fr/fr/au-programme/lieux-ressources/carrefour-numerique2/
>>
>> We will also have room to organize an exhibition as we did in London
>> (something we should do every year IMO!).
>> It also has a huge audience whether on weekdays and weekend, so we
>> should be able to attract quite a few random people easily.
>>
>> From what I understood the room they could lend us is the
>> "Auditorium", which has 361 seats. Seeing past audience of LGM (which
>> culminated at 450 for the whole LGM in Madrid), that should be enough,
>> though I do hope we will fill it entirely. :-)
>>
>> http://www.universcience.fr/fr/professionnels/location-despaces/nos-espaces/auditorium/
>>
>> Why I chose this over universities (where a LGM could be easily hosted
>> as well but I decided to not even ask) is because of our discussions
>> where we thought that this kind of places dedicated to host events may
>> actually be a much better fit. Also this is really an awesome place
>> which I know quite well, with parks around (we could picnic if the
>> weather is nice) and a lot of cool stuff to see if interested.
>> Also I have myself organized an event there many years ago.
>>
>> Now I will still want to wait until October to make sure everything is
>> OK. Moreover I believe that they will lend us the space
>> free-of-charge, but since we request a bigger room (they also have
>> smaller conference rooms inside Carrefour Numérique² but we need
>> more), I will need to make sure of all the details.
>> So I will contact you within a few months when they tell me more.
>>
>> Yet things look bright, and I wanted to update you with the advancement.
>>
>> Jehan
>>
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