Re: Euro PG conference?

Hi Selena,

a forgot to mention a key aspect for the 2007 organisation of PGDay
in Italy. It was free. Nobody paid anything for registration.

By the way, thanks for pointing out those interesting resources about
the Perl conference. ;)

Ciao,
Gabriele

Selena Deckelmann ha scritto:
> On 10/10/07, Gabriele Bartolini <gabriele(dot)bartolini(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>
>> These are just a few issues we had to face. What I am concerned is yet
>> again that everyone knows that organising such an event is a real
>> commitment (not a month's work) and the things to consider are many,
>> especially if we are doing them (as we all have done in Italy and I
>> assume that's your case) in our spare time.
>>
>
> To jump in here -- I have been organizing the conference along with
> Joshua here in Portland (happening October 20th), and it has probably
> taken 40 hours of my time. So far, we think we will have about 50
> people - so it is smaller than the Italian PGDay.
>
> I would love to help with conference organizing for the European
> PgDay. Unfortunately, I only speak English, but can recite Russian
> tongue twisters after a couple beers.
>
> I'll be posting all the information I've gathered for our conference
> on the developer wiki when we're done. I would love to take the
> "lessons learned" from my experience and the Italian PGDay and come up
> with a "so you want to have a PGDay conference? Here's what to do!"
> document for other user groups to refer to. (we just had another group
> in New Zealand start up!)
>
> -selena
>
>
>

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