[PD] the next PdCon in...

[Ed Kelly]

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>Hi there, the silence about this is kinda worrying me. Seems to me we may pass on this year, right?
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Touche.

One thing to note - PDCon has always been about opportunity, not regularity. As Max showed last time (and all the others I've been to in fact) you have to have venue, funding and time. Tie-ins with other events are often springboards for PDCon as was the case with Dan's earlier emails regarding this (bear in mind he also has a PhD to do, so it may still happen).

Also, PDCon is seen as rather niche by institutions like ICMA, and AFIAK is not considered "worthy" enough in terms of research by some academic institutions*. So prior funding is vital.

Perhaps 3 years is a good timetable? 50% more research, papers, and time. We'll see. 2 years was ambitious given the current "global economic meltdown". Perhaps we could get Morgan Cha$e, Goldman $ach$ and Barclay$ to fund us, given that they've stolen all our money. Or we could crowdfund it (unlikely? how? ideas please!).

Cheers,
Ed

* The University where I work doesn't even fund me to go to the ICMC any more when my papers are accepted, but that's an exception I hope!

>2013/4/1 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>
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>For those who don't know: "here" means Brazil.
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>>2013/4/1 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>
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>>On that matter, why don't we start discussing this. What I have to ask is, how good or bad can it be that the conventions start coming yearly but smaller? Is it better to wait 2-3 years for a bigger/blastfull one?
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>>>I'm not sure about the answer.
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>>>All I can say is what I've said before. We're planing to start an yearly event here in 2012, and we could host pd in a similarly tied fashion - too early to say how big it could be either.
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>>>anyway, holding on for your thoughts before I start saying something ;)
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>>>cheers
>>>Alex
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>>>cheers
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>>>2013/3/27 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
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>>>>Golan Levin and Dan Wilcox are the people at CMU that would be the organizers.
>>>> From what I've heard, they are interested in doing something, but probably a
>>>>smaller version, and tied to the VIA art festival, so the dates would only be
>>>>Oct 1-5:
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>>>>http://www.via-pgh.com/
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>>>>So we should decide whether that sounds workable, or whether we should just
>>>>focus all efforts on getting a full pdcon next year.
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>>>>.hc
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>>>>On 03/26/2013 10:33 AM, Epic Jefferson wrote:
>>>>> No answer?! Who is organizing?
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>>>>> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Alexandre Torres Porres
>>>>> <porres at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>>>>> I was just gonna ask the same again :)
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>>>>>> 2013/3/23 Epic Jefferson <jeffreyconcepcion at gmail.com>
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>>>>>>> Has there been any progress on the date? and if the pd-con will be in
>>>>>>> Pittsburgh?
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>>>>>>> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>wrote:
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>>>>>>>> On 01/15/2013 12:44 PM, J Oliver wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> first week of October
>>>>>>>>>>> 2013
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>>>>>>>>> Is this the week starting on Oct 7th?
>>>>>>>>> J
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>>>>>>>> My guess is that its Sept 30 thru Oct 5th, but I'll double-check.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> .hc
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