Location planning

The date & location have been picked. The content of this page is kept for historical purposes.

Dates: May or June 2010 in Montreal.

Three days: Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

Related dates (to take into account)
 * 3-4-5 May 2010 CMS Expo in Chicago
 * 3 May 2010 BarCamp Portland 4
 * 24 May 2010 Journée nationale des patriotes / Victoria Day
 * 1 Jun Open Source Bridge in Portland
 * 13 Jun 2010 Formula 1
 * 25 juin-6 juillet 2010. Festival de Jazz de Montréal
 * 7-9 juillet 2010. WikiSym 2010 Gdansk
 * 9-11 juillet 2010. Wikimania 2010 Gdansk

Essential

 * Wifi
 * Have Île Sans Fil with a mobile hotspot
 * Chairs
 * Cost: reasonable (see Laura)
 * There are no entry fees
 * It's for a good cause
 * Allows us to bring in outside food.
 * Located close to places to eat.
 * Can hold up to 200 people (One big square room is fine so long as everyone can fit. We need to be able to break up into small groups of two to ten people each.  If we can have one or two smaller rooms for coding, that is fine.)
 * A wall to post schedule, where we can tape stuff

Nice to have

 * A few tables, for leaflets
 * Located within walking distance of hotels
 * Located within walking distance of a metro station
 * Fairly central
 * Near pubs for evening social activities
 * Couches and/or bean bags (for comfy discussions)
 * Projector/giant screens to broadcast live
 * IRC chatroom on giant screen
 * Perhaps streaming broadcast (ex.: ustream)

Questions

 * Do we need a janitor or we'll clean up?
 * You know how geeks are.
 * Insurance: do we need to get, or need place to have?

Options

 * SAT (where we had 2007) not available
 * 5445 Avenue De Gaspé not available
 * 1710 Beaudry Available. June 26-27?