When people mentioned Stanford last night, I asked their Open Source Lab's event mailing list, and found a couple people willing to help, one of whom (Todd Davies) is willing to act as an academic sponsor. So I created a bid page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2011/Bids/Stanford
All we need is to sign up local sponsors (e.g. Google, Oracle, who else?) to pay for the venues and as much on campus room and board as possible, if we want to be sure to beat Montreal and Tokyo. I hope we can talk about that at the Meetup on the 6th.
I'm not partial to whether this is a 2011 or a 2012 bid, but the instructions said that a 2011 bid was still likely feasible. I would prefer Stanford to UCSC because it's closer to me, but I would also wholeheartedly support a UC Berkeley, UCSF, USF, etc. bids. Those are closer still to me, but logistically they seem more problematic in terms of accommodations, parking, raising sponsorship funds, etc. I would prefer to avoid conference facilities without libraries.
Cheers, James
Great! Can you also get some information about housing, and room costs? I know Stanford also has a lot of on-campus housing, but I am not sure how much of that would be available, and at what rate... can we get some idea?
Luca
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:41 PM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
When people mentioned Stanford last night, I asked their Open Source Lab's event mailing list, and found a couple people willing to help, one of whom (Todd Davies) is willing to act as an academic sponsor. So I created a bid page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2011/Bids/Stanford
All we need is to sign up local sponsors (e.g. Google, Oracle, who else?) to pay for the venues and as much on campus room and board as possible, if we want to be sure to beat Montreal and Tokyo. I hope we can talk about that at the Meetup on the 6th.
I'm not partial to whether this is a 2011 or a 2012 bid, but the instructions said that a 2011 bid was still likely feasible. I would prefer Stanford to UCSC because it's closer to me, but I would also wholeheartedly support a UC Berkeley, UCSF, USF, etc. bids. Those are closer still to me, but logistically they seem more problematic in terms of accommodations, parking, raising sponsorship funds, etc. I would prefer to avoid conference facilities without libraries.
Cheers, James
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Irina Zaks of Stanford's Open Source Lab has offered to help get the pricing information and the contact information for someone at Stanford Facilities who I hope can answer the availability question.
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Luca de Alfaro luca@dealfaro.org wrote:
Great! Can you also get some information about housing, and room costs? I know Stanford also has a lot of on-campus housing, but I am not sure how much of that would be available, and at what rate... can we get some idea? Luca
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:41 PM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
When people mentioned Stanford last night, I asked their Open Source Lab's event mailing list, and found a couple people willing to help, one of whom (Todd Davies) is willing to act as an academic sponsor. So I created a bid page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2011/Bids/Stanford
All we need is to sign up local sponsors (e.g. Google, Oracle, who else?) to pay for the venues and as much on campus room and board as possible, if we want to be sure to beat Montreal and Tokyo. I hope we can talk about that at the Meetup on the 6th.
I'm not partial to whether this is a 2011 or a 2012 bid, but the instructions said that a 2011 bid was still likely feasible. I would prefer Stanford to UCSC because it's closer to me, but I would also wholeheartedly support a UC Berkeley, UCSF, USF, etc. bids. Those are closer still to me, but logistically they seem more problematic in terms of accommodations, parking, raising sponsorship funds, etc. I would prefer to avoid conference facilities without libraries.
Cheers, James
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This would be great!
BTW, as a personal note, I studied at Stanford, then went on to teach at UCSC, so I love and know well both places :-) UCSC is more secluded, can be a more focused gathering place, is perhaps cheaper. The cons are the transportation, and the distance from Silicon Valley (one has to commit an afternoon; people cannot just drop by). Stanford is really in the center of Silicon Valley, many more people would be able to drop by if they just wish to attend a couple of sessions. Facilities are superb. Costs to be determined, but they do have campus housing in theory.
Luca
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:51 PM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
Irina Zaks of Stanford's Open Source Lab has offered to help get the pricing information and the contact information for someone at Stanford Facilities who I hope can answer the availability question.
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Luca de Alfaro luca@dealfaro.org wrote:
Great! Can you also get some information about housing, and room costs? I know Stanford also has a lot of on-campus housing, but I am not sure
how
much of that would be available, and at what rate... can we get some
idea?
Luca
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:41 PM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com
wrote:
When people mentioned Stanford last night, I asked their Open Source Lab's event mailing list, and found a couple people willing to help, one of whom (Todd Davies) is willing to act as an academic sponsor. So I created a bid page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2011/Bids/Stanford
All we need is to sign up local sponsors (e.g. Google, Oracle, who else?) to pay for the venues and as much on campus room and board as possible, if we want to be sure to beat Montreal and Tokyo. I hope we can talk about that at the Meetup on the 6th.
I'm not partial to whether this is a 2011 or a 2012 bid, but the instructions said that a 2011 bid was still likely feasible. I would prefer Stanford to UCSC because it's closer to me, but I would also wholeheartedly support a UC Berkeley, UCSF, USF, etc. bids. Those are closer still to me, but logistically they seem more problematic in terms of accommodations, parking, raising sponsorship funds, etc. I would prefer to avoid conference facilities without libraries.
Cheers, James
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