Re: Need a venue for GNOME at SXSW

[Ruth Suehle <rsuehle gmail com>]

After several years of SXSW, I'd say the closer to ACC or 6th Street, the better. Those are the focus points for all the action. The later in the day, the more people on 6th Street (which is where all the bars are and a lot of meetups happen). A 20-minute walk is a looong time. Talks aren't held only in the ACC. They're at venues around town, so much so that there are buses to transport you between things. In my experience, though, people at events not in or near the ACC are there all day because that space's topics are the one thing they're interested in or they have to really, really, reaaalllly want to be there. The buses are late and one year even broke down--it's a huge pain to go very far beyond ACC. Thus IMO Mugshots sounds like the best option.

On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:

Hey guys, what do you think about this?

sri


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From: Tiffany Yau <twtyau gmail com>
Date: Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: Need a venue for GNOME at SXSW
To: Karen Sandler <karen gnome org>
Cc: Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>


Hi all,

Listed below are a friend's/internet's recommendations.
They're centered around the Austin Convention Center, as Austin's
pretty spread out and I figured it'd be a good central site that
everyone will be near at some point...
A friend who's been to SXSW suggested doing the meetup earlier,
because everywhere will be packed with live music or some sort of
event once the music festival starts on March 11.

Linked to their yelp pages:
Mugshots: right across from the Austin Convention Center, cheap beers
and large outside patio, will probably be packed
Craft Pride: 10 min walk from ACC, large outside area, craft beers and
food trucks in back
Elephant Room: 10 min walk from ACC,  jazz bar with 50+ Irish/German
beers on tap
East Side Show Room: On east side, about 20 min walk from ACC,
swankier 1920s themed cocktails + cheese

Once you decide on a time/place, it might be good to prepare and write
down the meetup's time/place on your business cards and/or any of the
hand outs to pass around and remind people.

Let me know if you need anything else or any other ideas!
Tiffany



On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 8:01 PM, Karen Sandler <karen gnome org> wrote:
>
> yeah I was thinking the latter, I didn't think the former was a possibility?
>
> I'm unaware of any other GNOME related talks but I'll try to comb through the schedule. There are so many talks! Tom Calloway is presenting, I know that :)
>
> thanks so much for helping, Tiffany!
>
> karen
>
>
> On 2014-03-02 21:01, Tiffany Yau wrote:
>>
>> Thanks all. I have a couple of suggestions but it would help to know
>> if you guys are thinking that this event would be an official SXSW
>> event or if it'll just be an 'everyone who's interested meet here'
>> type of event?
>> Probably the latter since it's happening soon....
>>
>> And it might be good to start brainstorming whether any GNOME related
>> parties are speaking on panels or involved with SXSW to have them
>> tweet etc also.
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Karen Sandler <karen gnome org> wrote:
>>
>> I do, but they're not planning to do anything this time. They only have a few people going. That said, they are very likely to join us and I can probably get them to tweet about it too.
>>
>> thanks for helping Tiffany!
>> karen
>>
>> On 2014-02-28 20:58, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
>>
>> I think we need to talk with EFF somehow.  Karen do you have a
>> contact?  We can propose a joint location for this stuff.
>>
>> sri
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Tiffany Yau <twtyau gmail com> wrote:
>> Hi y'all,
>>
>> Of course, I'd be happy to!
>> Looks like EFF already has its ties with SXSW, do you guys know anyone there
>> who we might be able to join up with?
>> From what I vaguely know SXSW is held at local venues so I'm not sure what
>> booking a space during the festival will be like, but I'll poke around and
>> let you know.
>>
>> Tiffany
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tiffany!  Hope you're doing well.. since you've gotten some
>> experience in events planning, I was wondering if you could help me
>> with finding a good venue to talk about GNOME around SXSW.  It is in
>> Austin, TX, and maybe it could be a local bar, or a something?  We can
>> probably co-join with the EFF or something.
>>
>> What do you think?
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