Re: GUADEC 2007 in the UK?

[Milen Dzhumerov <gamehack 1nsp1r3d co uk>]

Hi guys,

I just wanted to say that I'm really for it :) I'm a bit disappointed
that you just ruled out London since I think that's the most convenient
place for a _lot_(IMHO) of people(including me). Going up north involves
 quite a bit of pain(hotels/other stuff) if you're living south east. I
also do understand that you cannot please everyone and there will be
always people not happy with the situation. Anyway, if it's going to be
in the SE/London area I'm able to give a hand with whatever I can. If
it's somewhere else I'd probably go despite of the location :) Let's roll

Thomas Wood wrote:
> Bastien Nocera wrote:
>> Hey Thomas,
>>
>> On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 12:57 +0000, Thomas Wood wrote:
>>
>>> To every GNOME user and developer in the UK,
>>
>>
>> We already discussed this a couple of years ago with Telsa, and the
>> bottom line was: don't do it around London (ie. not in the South East).
>>
>> The prices would be far too high for a majority of people. I think that
>> a venue with decent international links would be best, somewhere like
>> Birmingham, Manchester or even Liverpool would decent, in terms of price
>> and travel.
>>
>> Just need to find people on the field to organise it ;)
> 
> I think you've summed up most people's feelings here, which is why I
> chose your e-mail to reply to :-) It's great to see that people are
> interested, so the next questions are:
> 
> 
> * Who is definitely willing to help organise it?
> 
> We need a definitive working group. If people would like to put their
> names down on a list I think it would definitely help.
> 
> 
> * Where would be suitable?
> 
> We've already basically ruled out London. I think Birmingham would be a
> good choice in terms of getting people there. Basically any place close
> to an international airport and with a University would be a suitable
> candidate.
> 
> 
> * Mini GUADEC
> 
> I've also learnt that there is a proposal to hold GUADEC 2007 in Lyon.
> I'd still like to propose the UK as GUADEC was held in France in 2000,
> but has never been held in the UK. It would also really help bring
> together the GNOME community in the UK, and would probably help the more
> general FOSS community here too. If GUADEC 2007 is held in the UK, we
> will definitely need some sort of get together before it anyway, so...
> 
> What I'd also like to propose (and this is something that has been
> mooted before) is to organise a mini GUADEC sometime this year. This
> could be done alongside some other event (such as LUG Radio Live,
> e.t.c), or we could organise our own day somewhere. We'd get a few of
> the GNOME developers living in the UK to come along and give a some
> talks and hopefully get some interesting discussions going. So does any
> one have any suggestions about this, such as where we could hold it, and
> what we could organise.
> 
> -Thomas
> 
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