* Ron Guerin (ron@vnetworx.net) wrote: > Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > On Aug 11, 2008, at 7:01 PM, Micah Anderson wrote: > > > >> * Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@eds.org> [2008-08-11 15:31-0400]: > >> > >>> The last Podcamp NYC was at Poly, about 250 signed up, with a peak of > >>> 160ish at once. The total Podcamp paid Poly was about $3k. Compare > >>> that to the previous year in a big hotel's conference center: $30k. > >>> Barcamp NYC was just there, it had 24/7 access to one 10m x 20m room > >>> with 9 projectors, and 9am-11pm access to the rest of the spaces. I > >>> think the budget for Poly was $2k. Poly just merged with NYU, and > >>> NYU is a money-making machine, so that might change. Hopefully not. > > > >> Can you give an idea of how long these events lasted for? Debconf is > >> typically just shy of 2 weeks, with a smaller debcamp before-hand, > >> and a > >> larger 1 week event as the main attraction. > > > > The camps are 1-3 days, so short. The Poly campus is pretty dead in > > summer, so two weeks should be possible. But it would also be good to > > mix it up a bit, NYC is a big place. So perhaps the camp could be at > > one location, and the conf at another. > > > > Also, there is a hacklab 5 minutes away from Poly: > > http://www.nycresistor.com/ > > Google has made their facilities in Chelsea available for community > events in the past, without charge. This of course is nowhere near > Poly, but would be easy on the budget. Without saying anything "official", I doubt a prolonged event like Debcamp would be acceptable since space is fairly hard to come by during the day. I'm sure an evening event would be possible but I don't think Debian folks would be happy to accept the restrictions imposed by Google. And while I secretly held out hope for a out hope for DebConf10 in Montréal, a DebConf in New York would be awesome too. I'd like to help anyway I can. -- Eric Dorland <eric@kuroneko.ca> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: hooty@jabber.com
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