Re: OctConf 2012

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

2011/12/17 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>:
> I talked about this privately with some of you several months ago, and
> I didn't want to mention anything again until I could be more sure of
> my own situation.
>
> I want to have an Octave conference in Montréal during summer of 2012.
> I think it's a good way to bring developers together while at the same
> time raising Octave's profile within the numeric community. I have
> started talking to people, looking for sponsors and that sort of
> thing. I have found a place to host it, and I want everyone to start
> planning for it.
>
> If there are no overwhelming complaints against it, I propose the
> first Monday of June 2012, in Montréal. That's a six month notice.
> Modelled on the Sage Days conferences, I propose we do it for a whole
> work week, 5 days, where the first two are dedicated to helping
> beginners setup and use Octave and the last three are spent on actual
> development work, including helping those beginners get into
> development. This gives people some flexibility if they only want to
> attend the end or beginning of the conference.
>
> I will be asking local organisations and universities for sponsorship,
> and if you can help me by finding any other sources of sponsorship,
> please let me know. Fotios, I specifically cс'ed you in case you could
> help us by updating the initial conference poster you made (attached),
> remembering that this would be the 2nd such conference. Stefan, you're
> also local, so I was hoping you might help me a little organising
> this. I think you said you had some ideas of which doors to knock on
> for sponsorship. With some luck, perhaps we can start having these
> anually now.
>
> See you in June, hopefully!
> - Jordi G. H.

Wow, great idea. Planning...
I will see if there is anything we can get from CH and surrounding countries...




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M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
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