PyOhio2008/Venue

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The Columbus Public Library has been selected as the venue for PyOhio 2008.

Parking in the attached garage costs $4 / day; consider carpooling or using public transportation, as well.

The following notes are being left here for future use (planning PyOhio 2009, for example.)

Venue Considerations

  • Room for approximately 100-150 attendees.

  • A single room or area big enough to hold everyone for a plenary session or two.

  • Space to break up into 2 concurrent talks of ~50 attendees each, plus 2 Open Space groups of ~ 20 each

  • Wireless! Absolutely crucial if we have sprints, very desirable otherwise

Possible Venues

  • Ohio Supercomputing Center

  • Universities / colleges

    • - OSU - Ohio University: Lancaster Campus (30 mi SE of Columbus) - Columbus State Community College - Franklin University - Otterbein - Ohio Dominican

  • High schools

  • Library

    • The Columbus Public Library has a very generous policy on letting groups meet: http://evanced.columbuslibrary.org/evanced/lib/roomrequest.asp

    • Auditorium fits “200” (I think that’s optimistic, but the point is it should be enough for us, even for a plenary)

    • Auditorium has 22 power outlets; that should be fine, especially if we supplement with some power strips

    • Can serve food in auditorium

    • “Board room” seats 30

    • “the Loft”, classroom with 20 computers already in place

    • 2 small conference rooms seating 15 and 10

    • Some of the rooms come with projectors

    • Lots of extra spaces could be used as overflow open space: glassed-in group study areas, etc.

    • They’re OK with us reserving all the rooms

    • Rooms are pretty

    • Wireless

    • No charge

    • Well-known, central location

    • Accessible by bus

    • Parking in attached garage is not free (but it’s $4 / day, that’s really not bad)

    • Rooms are not all contiguous (but I think it’s OK for people to walk through the library a little bit)

  • Private company

    • Anyplace with substantial Python-using population might be willing

  • Training companies

    • The Cincinnati and Dayton branches of New Horizons have been friendly to user groups; is that true of Columbus?

  • OCLC

    • It looks like a nice facility, and it’s said they have some Python users. My only worry is that they’ll want $, but it can’t hurt to ask.

  • Art centers, community centers

    • I believe these would all require payment.