Alternately, if anyone out there works for a company that would be willing to "sponsor" a conference by letting us use their wi-fi enabled conference room, that would work as well, I think. Our "ideal" conference usually starts on a friday and runs through the weekend.
Bill
On Jun 27, 2007, at 7:18 AM, Martin Bähr wrote:
you don't need to be in touch with any organization. you could just ask where other groups (like your local linux user group) meet. many cities have community centers that can be used, or ask at the university.
and, we don't need a place for free. renting a place would be ok too. the conference fee has been extremly low until now so it sure would not be a problem to raise it a bit to pay for a location.
we also have funds available to make a prepayment. so there should be no financial risk.
really all that is needed is for someone to be at the location to help ensure that everything goes all right and handle the communication with the location provider.
in latvia, while we didn't pay for the location itself, we did pay for catering, and the location was only part of that deal.
so don't worry about not having contacts. just open the phonebook and call a few places to see where we can get a room.