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 <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-SF mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf >
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