Please DON'T repeat this year error. At the end of June lots of European students have their final exams (like myself) I could not attend this year GUADEC and I will not be able to attend next year GUADEC if you repeat the really bad dates you are suggesting here... If it should be on summer, please do it on July (I think that the plane prize are more expensive also in summer....) I cannot believe that we cannot have any other alternatives with better dates (July, August, September, or the best one, April, like old GUADECs). This year I was told that the problem was that was too late to find a place where celebrate the GUADEC on April, I think that we have enough time now to look for other place or prepare it for Mid-July or August. Cheers. El mar, 24-06-2003 a las 20:18, Nils Ulltveit-Moe escribió: > Application for hosting the 5th GNOME Users and Developers Conference. > > Agder University College (HIA), Institute for Technogy in Grimstad, Norway > would like to arrange the 5th GNOME Users and Developers Conference, > according to the prerequisites below: > > PREREQUISITES: > > Please indicate a budget and your experience with sponsors from earlier > events. We would need to use the GNOME foundations network to get in contact > with the right people for sponsorship contracts at big companies. What are > the criteria for Gold/Platinum etc sponsorship? > > End of June is the nicest time of the year in Norway, and the best time for > HIA to arrange the conference. April is unfortunately impossible for us, > since it is just before the exam period starts, so all the theatres will > still be in use. In addition, the students will focus on rehearsing to the > exams instead of attending or helping out at GUADEC, and the teachers that > help out arranging GUADEC will be too busy following up the students or > making exams. > > In addition, If GUADEC is arranged in April, then the student apartments are > still in use, and the cheapest option for accomodation will be to get an > agreement with Norlandia Sørlandet Hotell, as shown below. > > We expect the GNOME foundation to help organising central GNOME related > tracks, tutorials and BOF's, according to state-of-the-art GNOME development > in 2004. > > Agder LUG, GLUG and the OSYS group at HIA would organise side tracks and > tutorials, such as Mobility/Accessibility, SkoleLinux or other themes > according to people we know in the OSS communities, and/or send out Calls for > Papers. We also could consider arranging social events like sea-menu on > board, Norwegain wine cellar evening, concert event.. > > Please give feedback as soon as possible whether you want the conference in > Norway in end of June, or not. The hotel prices shown are valid if we get a > reply before 22. July. After that we have to renegotiate prices for the > hotel. > > ABOUT US > > There are two Linux user groups (LUGs) in the Agder region that will help out > arranging the conference. Agder LUG (See http://agder.linux.no with 50 > members) is the LUG for the whole Agder region, and GLUG (See > http://glug.grm.hia.no with 25 members) which is the student LUG at HIA. > > > Suggested project group (alphabetically): > > Alf Bjarne Olsen abolse01 grm hia no, Agder LUG, GLUG > Bjarne Offenberg boffen99 grm hia no, GLUG > Edward B. Fjellskål edwardfjellskaal yahoo no, Agder LUG > Erik Olaussen erik nsn no, Agder LUG > Finn-Arne Johansen faj bzz no, Leader Agder LUG. > Kristian Lyngstøl. nesquik bohemians org, Leader GLUG > Mikael Snaprud Mikael Snaprud hia no, HIA, Agder LUG > Nils Ulltveit-Moe Nils Ulltveit-Moe hia, HIA, Agder LUG > Vidar Hoel vhoel99 grm hia no, HIA, GLUG > Yngve F. Johansen yfjohans siving hia no, GLUG > > > PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE WITH ARRANGEMENTS > > The people in the project group are people that are active members in the > LUG's, and that have helped out arranging other arrangements at HIA, like the > annual Linux Installweek at HIA in 2001,2002,2003 (See > http://osys.grm.hia.no/installuke2003) or the seminar Open Source Freedom and > Democracy with Bruce Perens. The LUG's are closely related to the Open > Systems group (OSYS) at HIA, which has and overview of arrangements here: > http://osys.grm.hia.no/index.wc?id=Seminar > > Bjarne Offenberg is board member for the student house and pub called > Luftslottet, which also may be used during the arrangement. Either as a pub, > or as a venue for keynote speakers where we need space for more than 204 > persons. Luftslottet is situated right beside the college. Bjarne has > experience from arranging larger concerts and arrangements with up to 500 > participants at Luftslottet. He also has helped out arranging the Norwegian > short film festival in Grimstad this year, see > http://www.kortfilmfestivalen.no/. Mikael Snaprud, Nils Ulltveit-Moe and > Finn-Arne Johansen are key persons for arranging the other Linux related > arrangements above. > > > DRAFT PLAN > > Deciding upon dates, and getting prices for accomodation should be done as > soon as possible, as prices increases the closer you get to the conference. > > Working with possible sponsors, like HP, SUN, Ximian should start as early as > possible. We should also consider other companies situated in Norway that use > Linux to a large extent, or make Linux based products or sell services, like > LinPro, Trustix, Schlumberger, Dolphin, BibliotekSystemer, Kitrus, eZ.. > > The Linux installweek in mid-January 2004 may be used as a kick-off forum > where the GNOME foundation, Agder LUG, GLUG and HIA representatives meet to > plan the 5th GUADEC conference, and also give some early talks. > > > CONFERENCE VENUE > > HIA has 4 auditoria/theatres that will be used for the 5th GUADEC conference, > that are available after 15. June: > > AUD-MAX204 persons > AUD-MIN104 persons > AUD-F91 persons > AUD-G90 persons > > All these theatres are quite close together (within 20m apart), and the > biggest theatres are just inside the entrance, and right beside the student > canteen, which offers cold and hot lunch as well as dinner at a reasonable > price. The canteen is big, and should hold all conference members. The > student house and pub is 50 meters from the main entrance, and may be used > for keynote speakers, if the main theatre is not big enough. (supports up to > 400 people standing, 200 sitting.) Luftslottet may be used for Stand-up > GNOME's or for a pub evening. (Or we may go elsewhere.) The Linux users > group already has infrastructure for a hacking room where people may > connect their PC-s and do coding, even though it may have to be extended to > facilitate more PC's. In addition, all theatres and the canteen at HIA have > free WLAN connectivity. In addition, Grimstad is on the nicest coastal areas > of Norway, so we could try to arrange e.g. A boat trip, or some other kind of > social arrangement. > > TRAVELLING > > Grimstad is a nice and relaxed town 40 km (45 minutes) from Kristiansand > airport, and 180 km (2.5 hours) from Torp airport (Sandefjord), where you > may get take the budget airline Ryanair. > There are airport coaches going to and from Kristiansand, and the express > coaches between Kristiansand and Oslo corresponds with Torp airport until > 2200. It is also possible to take the Color Line ferry from Denmark to > Kristiansand, or the DFDS ferry from Newcastle to Kristiansand, or from > Strømstad in Sweden to Sandefjord. > > > ACCOMODATION > > If the 5th GUADEC conference is arranged the week commencing at 28th of > June, then it is possible to use the student apartments that are let out > during the summer. There are 72 apartments where each two apartments share > cooking facilities and bath, and 10-15 two room apartments. All together room > for 100 persons. Price for this, is around 37 Euro per night. Breakfast is > not included. The apartments are shown at http://www.ferieleiligheter.no/ > (Choose Grimstad.) > > We have also asked for a price for at least 150 persons at Norlandia > Sørlandet Hotell (See www.norlandia.no/sorlandet), and have got the following > prices for GUADEC 2004: If someone wants to come earlier, or leave later, > they can have the same prices. > > Single room with breakfast 60 Euro > > Double room with breakfast 72 Euro (36 Euro pr. Person) > > Apartment for 4 persons with breakfast 115 Euro > > The hotel is in nice park area, 7 minutes walk from HIA. > > FOOD AND BEER PRICES: > > The student canteen offers reasonable lunch (around 4 euro) and dinner (6-8 > euro) , and usually offers 3 courses in addition to ordered food like hamburgers etc. > > The student house/pub Luftslottet sells 0.5 l beer for 4.8 euro (No, it is > not that cheap, but you can buy tax-free when entering Norway ;-) > > > OTHER ARRANGEMENTS IN AGDER: > > Agder is also the Venue for other festivals: > > Short film festival in Grimstad, mid June, http://www.kortfilmfestivalen.no/ > Risør Chamber Music Festival, end June, http://www.kammermusikkfest.no/ > Quart festival in Kristiansand (Rock/Pop), early July, http://www.quart.no/ > Risør Wooden Boat Festival, early August, http://www.risor-woodenboat.no/ > > > For the project group at HIA > > Nils Ulltveit-Moe > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list -- Carlos Perelló Marín Debian GNU/Linux Sid (PowerPC) Linux Registered User #121232 mailto:carlos pemas net || mailto:carlos gnome org http://carlos.pemas.net Valencia - Spain
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