On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Always Learning <centos at u61.u22.net> wrote: > > Hoi Bert, > > > If you would decide to host such an event in Belgium, don't forget to > > ping me, I think I know the perfect location for a 2 day summit in > > Ghent, for a smaller group (max 100p/day). > > Never heard of Ghent. Google shows me 'Gent' which I have heard of. Is > that 'op de weg' tussen Oostende en Antwerpen Kennedy Tunnel ? > it seems you are more Dutch (or Flemish) than I thought, Ghent is just the English name for Gent :-) Anyway, yes, it's a nice city, not expensive, university and colleges, tech companies, everything you want. > > I was thinking of 7 days with the main event in the middle of those 7 > days. This would allow those with little time to attend only the main > event and the others, with more time, to arrive early and depart late, > explore the place and attend 'fringe' events and generally relax and > enjoy themselves. > if you want to do a 7 days event (which is very long, and I'm not sure if a lot of people would want to take a whole week off) we should do it during a school holiday and try to host it in the buildings of $college I think. But as I said, from my Fedora -FUDCon- experiences, 3 or 4 days is already enough to host talks, brainstorm sessions and more. You can not forget how costly such an event is, even if you try to make it low budget. > > Is camping aanwezig in de buurt van Gent of de huur locatie ? > sure, I just don't know any - but I know people who go camping a lot, so that's covered :-) > > Needed:- > > Commercial sponsorship, multiple > > good, low rates > > speakers > > exhibits > > classes in Linux/Centos (free or very low cost) > > comparison with Windoze and Centos/KDE/Gnome etc. > > promotion materials > > cheap but good quality Centos branded goods > (caps, tee-shirts, polos, sweat shirts, mugs enz.) > > primary language English, but good, clearly spoken > and devoid of jargon, colloquialisms > > free hand-outs including CDs/DVDs of Centos > > endorsement from de gemeente / regional government etc. > > reasonable admission cost with invoices for companies > wishing to charge everything to business expenses. > Perhaps very low for private indidivuals and higher for > companies ? > > IMPORTANT: some rain for Mr K B Singh who will feel > unwelcome unless he gets wet :-) > > Paul. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-promo mailing list > CentOS-promo at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-promo > -- Bert Desmet 0477/305361 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-promo/attachments/20110828/c73f0a6a/attachment-0006.html>