Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio Conference

[Tom Rondeau]

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Martin Braun <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Tom, hi list,
>
> What's the status on the dates? At our lab, conference viѕits etc. for
> 2011 are currently being planned, so I thought I'd ping this thread.
> I guess it's unlikely someone will cross the atlantic "just" for a week-end
> of GNU Radio (I'm not saying "wouldn't like to"), so if the dates aren't
> fixed yet, I would like to mention that putting said conference close to
> some other conference (say, something COMSOC or similar) might increase
> the chances of getting Europeans to participate.
> For example, PIMRC 2011 is in Toronto (practically 'round the corner :)
> from 5-8 September.
>
> Bye,
> MB

Thanks Martin, I'll keep that in mind. I will try to work out soon
what the dates will be. And, yes, Toronto is pretty easy to get to,
and I wouldn't be surprised if a number of flights to/from Europe to
Toronto have a stop in PHL.

Tom



> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:19:04AM -0500, Tom Rondeau wrote:
>> I want to have a separate thread for discussing the GNU Radio
>> conference details. Here is what we have so far:
>>
>> When: Sometime in September, 2011
>> Where: Philadelphia, PA, USA – probably on the University of Pennsylvania 
>> campus
>> How long: 2.5 – 3 days
>>
>> The first thing I would like to do is nail down the exact dates. There
>> are two ways we can go with this, and I'm polling the community here
>> to try to figure it out. We can either hold the conference during the
>> week or over a weekend. The weekend would look like (probably): Friday
>> afternoon, all day Saturday and Sunday. If we held it during the week,
>> I was thinking something like: all day Wednesday and Thursday and
>> Friday morning.
>>
>> There are certain people who will find either time better than the
>> other depending on your work/life situations. So we want to make sure
>> that this happens during the most convenient time for the most amount
>> of people. Once we figure this out, I will work on securing a location
>> to host the event. A show of hands for how many people think they can
>> attend would also help me determine what size we need to account for.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tom
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