Re: [ox-en] Initiatives for next Oekonux Conference
- From: Stefan Merten <smerten oekonux.de>
- Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 08:47:23 +0200
Hi lists!
Last month (32 days ago) Stefan Merten wrote:
Some days ago Yuwei contacted me and said that she would like to care
about a 4th Oekonux Conference in Manchester - where she settled
recently. Yuwei offered help for a 4th Oekonux Conference long ago. I
referred her to Andres who also offered help for a 4th Oekonux
Conference some weeks ago on [ox-en]. Andres lived (lives?) in
Sheffield which - AFAICS - is in the same geographical region as
Manchester. I share the impression of Yuwei and Andres that Northern
England could be a good location for a 4th Oekonux Conference.
[...]
Then a few days ago Magius sent a very similar question to [ox-en].
Magius also said that he is interested in hosting the 4th Conference
in Rome a long time ago.
Both locations - Manchester or the like and Rome - would meet the
requirements for a 4th Conference found at the end of the 3rd: A
non-German speaking European country.
Well, I'm actually delighted by so much enthusiasm :-) :-) .
My personal impression is that at the moment there is a lot of
positive energy for a 4th Oekonux Conference so we should really start
organizing it. For this it is probably most important to first agree
on a location and then on a date. Then we have a visible goal and who
ever likes to can start working on reaching it.
What do you think about these locations? Which one would you prefer
for which reasons?
Obviously there is no controversy here :-) .
To get us going: I'd prefer Northern UK / Manchester slightly - mainly
because there are two Oekonuxis who offered support for this option.
May be Rome could be a good place for a 5th conference. Also there is
a lot of virtual work to do so magius can engage there if he likes.
I think the exact city / place to try can be found on [pox] now.
Now we need to agree on a time range for the conference. The two
ranges suggested so far were May/June 2007 and November 2007. For the
last conference a year of preparation turned out to be too short. I
tend to give us more time and would opt for November 2007 - or may be
October. Does anyone know of any major events in this period which
could overlap in topic with an Oekonux Conference? This would need to
be considered when fixing a date.
Mit Freien Grüßen
Stefan
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