Re: "Boston" Summit 2013?

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Germán Póo-Caamaño <gpoo gnome org> wrote:

On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 14:38 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 11:31 -0700, Germán Póo-Caamaño wrote:
> >
> > One of the benefits of Boston is that MIT traditionally had lent the
> > venue for free during Columbus Day.
>
> Historically there was also the presence of Novell and Red Hat, among
> others.  It's certainly the case that this presence is not as strong
> now.  But at least Montreal is drivable from Boston (and that's what
> several of us did in 2011).  And hotels are not too expensive there
> (compared to Cambridge).

> [...]

Maybe because of the same reason, Boston Summit was almost (if not)
zero-cost for the foundation. It has been during the last ~2-3 editions
that the foundation started to sponsor some people to attend.

yeah, and it's not really a summit without the folks at westford being able to attend.  If there are other viable ones then we can look at them.

I'm asking my employer whether they have resources to help here as well.

The board will have the weigh the advantages and disadvantages with Portland as a venue versus Montreal.  I will make some inquiries about venue which I currently have as Portland State. Some of you who have attended the first two Linux Plumbers Conference are familiar with that.  it's a perfectly adequate facilitiy that will more than suffice for the summit.

sri


sri
 

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