Re: [nfsv4] Potential schedules for BakeAThons in 2011

[Thomas Haynes <[e-mail]>]

On Oct 11, 2010, at 6:17 PM, Sorin Faibish wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:19:22 -0400, Thomas Haynes <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> We have 3 or 4 people outside of those who have been vocal in the
>> past about having the event in Paris. We even proposed that the
>> BAT that was held in Ann Arbor be held in Paris this year. That never
>> gained any real traction.
> Just to be clear whoever organizes the event in Europe needs to have
> enough budget to support it. It is not clear to me who will have the
> budget in Prague or Hamburg? In Paris there is EMC that can have the budget.
> This is why we thought of Paris in the first place as an alternative to Boston
> in 2010. Due to the economy people voted for Boston. This is why we had it in
> Boston.



You have a small sample size of attended BakeAThons. Breakfast, lunch, excursion to
a bar, t shirts, etc, are all niceties that we always do not have present.

The budget has to be power, meeting room, network bandwidth, and setup time.

The only one which might cost real money is network bandwidth. I.e., I have been to
several where that was the cost which hit the books.