Hi All, Vidya Prasarak Mandal, Thane ( www.vpmthane.org ) would like an opportunity to host KohaCon 2011. VPM, Thane is an educational institute located in Thane which is right on the outskirts of Mumbai, the commercial capital of India. VPM, Thane is the founder of the Granthalaya.org ( www.granthalaya.org ) project which is doing a lot to promote Koha in public libraries in this region. VPM, Thane is on a large campus which houses various colleges like Arts, Commerce, Science, Management, Advanced Study center, Polytechnic providing education from 11th standard upto PHD. The campus has five libraries which are in the process of migrating to Koha. VPM also has BLIB and MLIB courses on the same campus so has a number of library science teachers and students. The campus has several seminar halls well equipped with Internet connectivity, Audio and Video equipment as well as web casting capabilities. The campus also has excellent canteen facilities and in Thane city we have Domino's and Pizza Huts too.. Thane city has several nice hotels & is very close to Mumbai so air connectivity is not an issue. The ideal time would be first week of November as it is Diwali holiday's so wont conflict with academic schedules. November is also a very pleasant season in this region. India is a beautiful country and you wont have a better excuse than KohaCon to visit us. So what say ya all? Regards, Koustubha Kale Anant Corporation Contact Details : Address : 103, Armaan Residency, R. W Sawant Road, Nr. Golden Dyes Naka, Thane (w), Maharashtra, India, Pin : 400601. TeleFax : +91-22-21720108, +91-22-21720109 Mobile : +919820715876 Website : http://www.anantcorp.com Blog : http://www.anantcorp.com/blog/?author=2 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre@galecia.com> Date: 2011/1/19 Subject: Re: [Koha] Conference bids? To: Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz> Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz, MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> Hi All, I live in a cute small town that is in the wine country of California, Petaluma. Also, the town is scenic with lots of good restaurants and shopping. We're 30 miles from the ocean, 45 minutes from San Francisco, and we have three international airports all within 1 to 1.5 hours from here. Now that we have Koha libraries (and more on the way) here in California, it would be great to have a conference here so they could attend. We have a Sheraton in town plus some other economy hotels so we could hold the meeting at the Sheraton (depending on cost) or possibly at our community college or junior college or possibly one of several other venues here. I haven't checked into anything but the Sheraton. Any interest? Lori 2011/1/13 Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz>
* MJ Ray (mjr@phonecoop.coop) wrote:
Hi MJ
M. Brooke Helman wrote:
Surely, surely there are folks out there that these magic pixels will reach that harbour a burning passion to host a Koha Conference. Step up and declare your intent, please. The clock is ticking if we really do want an annual Conference. Toss your hat in the ring. After all
"How hard could it be?"
software.coop has agreed to evaluate the idea of hosting #kohacon11 but we've been a bit busy (as ever). What do they need to know?
We're still a fairly small company (not being able to pawn the company makes growth slower but stabler) so how many people would we need?
Any notes the people at Catalyst can share? HLT? Plano? France?
Is http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_Conference_Bidding current?
Sorta
http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Talk:Koha_Conference_Bidding is worth readint too, as well as http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/KohaCon2011_Proposals
My suggestions learnt from hosting Kohacon10 .. get a venue and dates as early as possible, to give people plenty of times to organise travel. Then get speakers lined up, once you have those 3 things, everything else starts clicking into place.
Chris
Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Past Koha Release Manager (2.0), LMS programmer, statistician, webmaster. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for Koha work http://www.software.coop/products/koha _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
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