You might also have a look at Providence, RI. There's an airport, it's an hour from Boston by car, and they have an active tech community there:
http://rinexus.com/ http://providencegeeks.org/ http://www.pbn.com/Schillings-38-Studios-signs-lease-at-One-Empire-Plaza,52603 Good restaurants abound and entertainment options are at least extant if not quite as rich as Portland, OR. Venues are likely to be far cheaper than Boston. - Franklin On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Steve Holden <holden...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/28/2010 1:19 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: >> On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 22:51 -0400, Steve Holden wrote: >>> I'd just like to briefly report back on the inquiries Nancy and I have >>> been making into East coast venues for DjangoCon 2011. >> >> just curious - why a hotel? In India we hold such conferences in >> universities/colleges - they provide all facilities free of cost (except >> accomodation - although some make their guest houses available for the >> VIPs), and in fact, compete with each other to offer hosting. We have >> just finished Pycon India where we got three state of art auditoriums >> free of cost. > > The choice of venue was made in advance for this year - effectively we > took over an existing contract. This is the first time anyone has > suggested a non-hotel venue. > > I haven't really heard much support for a university venue from the > community at large. They have both advantages and disadvantages. Of > course PyCon used a university location for the first three years. After > we outgrew the original location the conference's size made it difficult > to find university locations large enough (according to the people who > made the choices - I only chaired for three years). > > It would be best not to cast the net too wide, given that a year ahead > is a relatively short planning time frame for a conference of this size. > > regards > Steve > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- Art, writing, journal: http://einspruch.com Comics: http://themoonfellonme.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
