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