If this is something you would like to be interested in doing, please email me
offline and we will put together a working group. I don't want to flood the
User's Group with traffic about this...
I've already got one ex-Microsoft executive who is a personal friend of
mine on
board for getting the conference here. He is going to hit up Red Hat,
Mozilla,
Novell, IBM, and some other companies that he has connections with.
This will require some planning on our part and at least one hour a night to
devote to legwork scouting out locations and calling around for conference
space. Orlando might be a better location, you might be onto
something. However, we might be able to get the city of Tampa to buy
into the idea and
kick in some conference space. This is something we will have to discuss.
My personal email is rmorgan at heavysystems.com. Drop me a line next
week and
we will organize ourselves into an "official" aKademy 2006 conference planning
group.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Sincerely,
Richard Morgan
Heavy Systems Administrator
http://www.heavysystems.com
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Quoting Sick Twist <thesicktwist@hotmail.com>:
>> From: Richard Morgan <rmorgan@heavysystems.com>
>> Reply-To: slug@nks.net
>> To: slug@nks.net
>> Subject: Re: [SLUG] aKademy 2006 in Tampa
>> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:24:04 -0500
>>
>> 5) Transportation - I think we have that covered. If this event is
>> in the city
>> of Tampa, the public transportation will suffice.
>>
>> 6) Food - plenty of places to eat around Tampa...
>>
>
> I think you overestimate our fine city. :)
>
> Public transit is dismal compared to other large citites and most
> event attendees will not be in a position to rent a car. They will
> need easy ways to get to and from the airport, lodging, eateries, and
> the event itself.
>
> As for food, cruising up and down Dale Mabry isn't a viable option
> and downtown Tampa is a ghosttown after 5 PM.
>
> The Westshore business district might work if the conference were
> located there as well. There are hotels, restaurants, shopping and
> the airport all within 1-2 miles of each other. Still, it's a far
> departure from most big cities.
>
> I wonder if Orlando might be in a better position to host something
> like this. I'm not as familiar with the location of Orlando's airport
> but that city is probably more prepared for a large influx of
> tourists.
>
> -Jonathon
>
>
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