On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 05:05:31PM +1000, Michael Still wrote: > Craige McWhirter wrote: > > Skip forward 20 months to January 2007 and I think that "LCA 2007, > > Wollongong" would be an ideal choice, provided SCLUG have the full > > support and backing of the SLUG community, which I don't doubt they'll > > have. > > I suspect the hardest part for future LCAs is going to be venues... > Finding lecture centers which can take high hundreds of people without > costing the earth is going to be hard. It's clear to me that Canberra > wasn't a big enough venue, especially as we had to turn people away. Growing LCA is going to be a major pain, I agree. Unfortunately, the only idea I can think of at the moment (splitting the conference into multiple separate yet most likely related conferences) sucks for a wide variety of reasons. Even finding a really, really big venue (capable of holding umpteen thousand delegates) isn't necessarily a solution. You need one room capable of holding everyone, and at least one or two other rooms capable of holding nearly as many people (since it can be hard to guess which of several simultaneous talks is going to be the big drawcard). Do we know how the other big Linux conferences (or even other, relatively unrelated meeting events) handle these sorts of size issues? > How do we keep getting bigger without sucking too much? How big is the > venue in Wollongong? The largest venue in the Uni can hold (well) over a thousand people. There are also several lecture theatres that can hold (from memory) 600-700 people each. There's actually quite a schweet cluster of theatres in one area of the Uni which would be quite amenable to an LCA (large foyer, big grassy area outside) and the Uni has been doing a lot of work to build an all-encompassing (quite literally; I've heard that someone did a test in every toilet) WiFi network. I'm sure we can obtain couches from somewhere, too. Speaking to Ashley Maher (my co-head-SCLUGer) we think it's a possibility, with the support of people at the Uni and some help from SLUG people. What's the process for making a "bid" for an LCA? Presumably it's similar to the olympics (all bribes and under-the-table deals)? - Matt
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