[okfn-coord] Rooms Booked

[Rufus Pollock]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> Fantastic news Pro! :-)

Ditto :)  Big well done on getting this moving so quickly.

Couple questions regarding location:

  1. Where exactly are the rooms we've got?

  1. Any possible chance of being in the Old Theatre (for Communia).
I've been at one conference in here before and it was really nice. (I
know it has rather large capacity but you can always just use
downstairs).

  2. For OKCon we might want to have one big room in morning but
multiple (2/3) rooms in afternoon for separate workshops etc.

> So, just to clarify, as it stands, COMMUNIA will be on 26-27th, and OKCon +
> CC Europe meeting will be on 28-29th. We'll definitely prominently advertise

I think OKCon should be Saturday 29th if at all possible (much harder
for people to travel in from Oxford, Cambridge etc etc on Sunday)

> affiliation with LSE this time. Would it be sufficient to have LSE/OKF
> billed as co-organisers in CFP/announcements and LSE logo on website? Let us
> know of anything else we should do...

Yes, this seems important. For COMMUNIA I don't see this as a big
issue but, if necessary for OKCon, we could always do something
explicitly jointly (in which case we probably have to pay something as
we did last time).

> Would be great to liaise with any of your colleagues that might be
> interested. I would guess that Pangiota Alevizou might be interested in
> getting involved, do you know her?
>
> Meanwhile, I guess the thing to do is to distill a CFP/announce from our
> proposal, and start circulating and inviting relevant people personally.
> I'll try and start doing this on OKF board wiki tomorrow...

Yes. We should probably get a list for both Communia (board wiki) and
OKCon (public wiki I think):

  * Dates/deadlines
  * Draft CFP
  * People to contact/invite (if needed)

Rufus

> Prodromos Tsiavos wrote:
>>
>> Hey Jonathan,
>>  Have just booked the rooms for the period between the 26th and the 29th.
>> It is only for the 29th that we have a 55 persons room. For the rest of the
>> days we have an 80 people room (Thursday) and an 130 people room (for Friday
>> and Saturday). No fee needs to be paid, but these have to appear as events
>> hosted by the LSE.
>>  Will get back to you with more details
>>  best
>> pRo
>>
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