[Lbw2007] [Lbw] LBW 2007

[Spiros Bolis]

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Antony Stone wrote:

> Those dates were never discussed this year, and therefore nobody has come up
> with anything like the proposal we had from Mary this time last year.
>
> I'm going to propose some dates which I hope are an effective compromise
> between feasibility in terms of people getting information, and practicality
> in terms of booking travel, time off work, and making local arrangements at
> the chosen venue.
>
> 1. Confirmation of intention to put forward a proposal: 
[..]
> 2. Outline proposal including location (name of town, not just a country) 
[..]
> 3. Full proposal including the hall/building to act as the centre of the
> travel: 
[..]
> 4. Vote if there is more than one complete and plausible proposal by the end
> of stage 3: 
>
> Please comment on the above suggestion, and please start getting some
> information together so that we have an LBW 2007!

Hi guys,

I'm writing this e-mail without preparing some of the stuff I wanted just to 
short things out. We, the Hellenic Linux Users Group (of which I'm the 
elected vice chairman) were more than happy to hear from Andy Fletcher the 
idea to have us organise next year's LBW.

I was under the impression that we were the only ones proposing something 
for LBW'07 that's why I didn't write anything sooner. To quote Andy's e-mail 
on Novermber the 5th, : "At present there are no other contenders for the 
LBW and I have received comment from one group that they are holding back 
with their proposal to give Greece a clear run". That was one month ago but 
I thought we still had more than enough time to plan things ahead and
announce them to you.

We had the chance to meet in person in Athens a couple of weeks ago with 
Andy and after a brainstorming over greek cuisine we decided that the best 
place to host such an event would be Crete for various reasons (that would 
take some time to write which unfortunately I don't have right now but I 
promise we'll do our best to prepare something before this year ends for 
your consideration)

Anyway, to make a long story short: We've already have a mailing list
set up  (Cc'ing them) in which we're doing the local organisers' stuff
(who's gonna call whom, which mayor to ask about rooms, what excursion
to plan etc.) That's at http://lists.hellug.gr/mailman/listinfo/lbw2007
At the time we have only 3 people working loosely on it but I expect
that to change soon.

We've also set up a vhost at:
http://lbw2007.hellug.gr/
in which we'll be installing a collaborative tool (like a wiki) with
content similar to the one previous LBW had (how to get there, what to
see, useful vocabulary etc)

Andy (who's up to his neck with his job at this time) has already offered to 
help with the Greek proposal and will be visiting Athens sometime in mid-January 
and we'll have the chance to coordinate even better.

I have the slight impression that we'll be in touch ;-)

Cheers everyone,

Spiros