I agree the main campuses of UBC and SFU are too far away from downtown and from accommodations.
UBC Robson Square might be big enough: https://robsonsquare.ubc.ca/event-conference-planning/
Other downtown options could be SFU’s downtown buildings, or BCIT’s downtown campus. See http://www.sfu.ca/mecs/vancouver-main.html and https://www.bcit.ca/rentals/downtown.shtml . SFU’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialog is an incredible space aesthetically - I’m not sure if has enough of the right-sized rooms though.
Is there a list of the requirements, e.g. “at least one room that will fit 300 people and five other spaces that will hold 30 people each” kind of thing?
Su-Laine (currently at WikiConference NA - please find me and say hi if I haven’t met you yet)
On Nov 9, 2019, at 9:46 PM, Joe Mabel jmabel@joemabel.com wrote:
Do you know if UBC's facility at Robson Square in Vancouver might be in the running? Or is it too small and/or too busy?
JM
On 11/9/2019 5:26 PM, Bruce Englehardt wrote:
An event in the Northwest would be best during September or early October before the weather turns (but after peak pricing and the wildfire season).
The major universities in Seattle (UW) and Portland (PSU) are close to downtown, but Vancouver's (UBC or SFU) are remote and require bus transfers.
Any of the three would be fine, but note that Portland has fewer plane connections. There are trains and Intercity coach buses that connect the three, taking about 3.5 to 4 hours for Portland-Seattle and Seattle-Vancouver (including border customs).
I'd be happy to work on this if we can grab some local sponsors.
On Sat, Nov 9, 2019, 14:09 Chan, Judy judy.chan@ubc.ca wrote:
Happy to help out, but not wanting to over commit myself yet :)
Judy
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From: Wikimedia-Cascadia wikimedia-cascadia-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Luiza Wainer lu.wainer@gmail.com Sent: November 9, 2019 11:00 AM To: Wikimedia Cascadia group mailing list Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Cascadia] Wikipedia Conference 2020
I know someone in Toronto who was going to suggest their city. The feeling I got talking to some folks is that they were trying to have it be more accessible to others, having the event either away from the coasts of the USA (some one mentioned Detroit) or in other North American countries (Canada, Mexico). In this case I'd love to see it happen in Vancouver instead of Seattle or Portland.
On Sat, 9 Nov 2019 at 10:39, Joe Mabel jmabel@joemabel.com wrote:
I'd certainly be in, though this is not necessarily the time of year people would most want to be in Seattle.
How many people "on the ground" do you think it requires? How big is this year's conference?
JM
On 11/9/2019 9:52 AM, Raymond Leonard wrote:
People attending from the NW include SounderBruce, Another Believer, RageSoss, & Peaceray, so I suggest taking with some of us. Let us not forget Vancouver, BC as well!
On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 12:40 Dulaney jdulaney@gnu.org wrote:
On Samh 09, 2019 aig 12:13:24f -0500, sgrìobh Liz 99: > I'm not sure who to direct this message to but I'm at Wikipedia Conference > North America & I've had 6 different people suggest to me that next year's > conference be in Seattle or Portland (and that is just on the first
day)
Do > you think this would be of interest to this chapter? Are there enough > members here to pull this off? Just planting a seed. > > Liz FWIW, I'm interested in helping out.
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