Re: Anyone in Europe willing to host OctConf 2016 ?

[Jacopo Corno]

Il 08/05/2016 23:10, Andrea Latina ha scritto:

Hello Carnë, hello everyone,

I am a physicist, I work at CERN, and I appreciate and use Octave on a daily basis. So my question is: Would you be interested in having this OctConf 2016 at CERN?

I think CERN could be the ideal location for such an event: there are meeting rooms, there are projectors, there is a restaurant that can provide coffee breaks and buffets at modest price, and -if we are lucky- there can even be accommodation on site for those coming from abroad. Plus, I think it would be very cool to have CERN acknowledging and endorsing such an important open-source tool like Octave.

Let me know if you think this idea is attractive. Should this be the case, I will contact the CERN IT department to see if they are willing to help.

Cheers,

Andrea

Dear Andrea, dear Carnë, dear all,

this invitation sounds really appealing! As part of last year hosts in Darmstadt, I would enjoy going to CERN for this year OctConf.

As a back up plan, if there is any problem in the organization, Darmstadt is also available for hosting the conference again. We also have some new addition to the Octave community in our department (Idoia in cc) who is willing to help with the organization.

I am however hopeful to hear from Geneva some good news!
Cheers,
Jacopo

On 8 May 2016 at 01:37, Carnë Draug <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi everyone

We have been meeting every year at OctConf since 2012.  We don't have
a plan for OctConf this year yet.

For those who have never attended, this is a 3 day users and developers
meeting.  Some show what they use Octave for, others what they have been
working on, and everyone gets to discuss what they would like Octave to be.
There is a fair amount of coding.  It's easier to discuss in person and
most core developers are there to explain the many undocumented aspects
of the language.  And of course, at the end of the day we go out for dinner
and drinks.

As it has been mentioned before that the current centre of gravity for
Octave programmers is in Europe so we would like to have OctConf it in
Europe again.  However, we need someone willing to organize it soon.

We are very easy to accommodate.  We need one room with a projector.  We
must have been roughly 50 people last year, so we don't even need a very
large room.  We need power sockets for the laptops and internet access.
Food and coffee would be nice.  That's about it.  We have been meeting
at Universities where this is relatively simple to achieve.

Is there someone capable and willing to host OctConf 2016?

Carnë

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