Re: Digest for pyconca@googlegroups.com - 2 Messages in 2 Topics

[Greg Wilson]

On 2012-12-19 7:30 PM, pyc...@googlegroups.com wrote:
> Today's Topic Summary
Are non-board members (like me) allowed to throw ideas in the air? Or
do you have enough of those already?
Cheers,
Greg

[David Wolever]

Always! Of course, they might not be caught... But always welcome to be thrownZ

[Nicola Yap]

We'd love some venue ideas. We want to get on the ball with that NOW given the difficulty finding something available last year.

When I have some time later today I'll dig up the ones I looked at last year.

Nic

[Mathieu Leduc-Hamel]

Have looked with any Universities ? They always have rooms for conferences and events...

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Mathieu Leduc-Hamel

[Nicola Yap]

Yeah, we looked at the universities/colleges downtown. A lot of them were fully booked - we didn't start asking around until June, so we hope starting sooner help this time.

Some places we talked to or looked at last year include:

U of T
George Brown
Ryerson
OCAD
Toronto Reference Library
Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre - (ruled out as too far from downtown core though it's a great venue)
MaRS
CSI (it's too small though)
Underground Cinema (okay for large talks, but not for multi-track, tutorials, etc).
Drake (too small)

Linda had suggested these 2 and I think we had a quote from St. Andrews.

Ontario Bar Association Conference Centre

http://www.oba.org/new_conferencecentre/home/home.aspx 

St. Andrew's Club & Conference Centre

http://www.standrewsclub.ca/rooms_summary.html

Other options I didn't look into for the first PyCon Canada. Both are similar to the Polish veterans hall we had this year, but they have larger capacity.
- Lithuanian House, located near Freshbooks and steps from Dundas West station or the streetcar to downtown core.Tons and tons of food in the area.
- Estonian House, about a 10 min walk north of Broadview station.

[Mathieu Leduc-Hamel]

OH another thing,

For PyCon NA, Tourism Montreal was simply amazing at helping us finding a venue and help us building the bid book and stuff like that. You might be surprised also at which point the city could help you if you told them that a lot of computer scientist from all around the world would come.

if i was you i would try to contact somebody like that:

http://www.seetorontonow.com/

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Mathieu Leduc-Hamel