Hello,

a short report from the meeting on IRC yesterday. After a semi-public question & answers session about the candidates we discussed the different opportunities among the committee members.

It became we clear that we need detailed plans as a basis for the final decision, but to save the participants unnecessary work, we decided to narrow down the list to three candidates which appeared the most promising to us: Dublin, Frankfurt and Rotterdam.

It was hard (and very sad :-(, for my part) to sort out the Eastern European cities, main reasons for this decision were that there are not enough local people to help and the difficult travel situation for people from overseas even when the offers looked very beautiful.

The final city will be chosen in two weeks from now.

The rest of the meeting was about organization in general: we'll divide the work up in different teams. Below is the first draft with the fields and the people who volunteered for each job. If you'd like to help in a certain field, please contact these people:

* conference program (Angela) * sponsorships (Jimbo) * finances (Oscar) * PR (N.N.) * social activities (Danny) * information in the projects (Anthere) * website & registration (Brion) * technics (local)

greetings, elian