[PD] Next PdCon?

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

Alexandre Castonguay
Alexandre Porres
Alexandros Drymonitis

What is wrong with people called Alex and their urge to organize PdCons?

2016-11-23 16:20 GMT-02:00 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>:

> every once in a thousand emails I hit a magic shortcut I never know of and
> send an incomplete email out...
>
> continuing...
>
> I never guaranteed any structure, and I can say now that it was quite a
> bluff that I could pull something off, as I had never done that... and...
> well... these days, if we were to do it here, it'd be a lot more modest...
>
> And anyway, we had a pretty nice technical structure, but also no spatial
> system whatsoever...
>
> what I', trying to say is that you shouldn't worry much about being fancy
> and meeting any standard requirements. Well, let me refer to some of your
> text.
>
> 2016-11-23 16:05 GMT-02:00 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>:
>
>>
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>> 2016-11-23 9:14 GMT-02:00 Alexandros Drymonitis <adrcki at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> I asked a friend and colleague who works at the American College of
>>> Greece in Athens whether it would be possible to host the next Pd
>>> Convention there. He is very positive about this, without this meaning it's
>>> certain.
>>>
>>
> sounds like a great start :)
>
>
>> What I would like to ask is when do you guys think it would be best to
>>> organize this? 2017 or 2018?
>>>
>>
> I guess anything earlier than 5 years (2021) is a progress :D we never had
> two years in a row, but sure i'd personally love to see PdCons every year.
> But looks like 2018 is more like it...
>
> the college can provide the necessary infrastructure
>>>
>>
> yeah, that all sounds great
>
>
>> Some other stuff (like concerts) can happen in various places in Athens
>>> (...) anything else will probably happen in the center.
>>> I know that PdCon16~ was a bit scattered around NYC, and Athens is much
>>> smaller than that, but transportation is not the best.
>>>
>>
> Well, herd in São Paulo it was all over the place and transportation is
> definitely worse than in NY
>
> What helps a lot with these kind of things is a good organization, that
> you guys provides us all the best information on how to get around, also
> specially made maps with detailed transportation info, etc... just work out
> good logistics with enough time in schedule to get around.
>
> I can say we did offer a good structure, but I can also say that the
> hardest part and what's more important is to offer a well organized event.
>
> I can add more thoughts as this thread progresses ;)
>
> cheers
>
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