[Air-l] AoIR conference venues

[Endre Dányi]

For those of you who are interested..

Budapest official website in English: http://english.budapest.hu/
Central European University: http://www.ceu.hu/
Hungarian as a working language for Internet Researchers:
http://impulzus.sch.bme.hu/info/magyar.shtml

best,
endre



----- Original Message -----
From: "Maria Bakardjieva" <bakardji at ucalgary.ca>
To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Air-l] AoIR conference venues


> I am surprised to see Jeremy putting Sao Paolo and Budapest in the same
> segment of the same timeline. I am not sure what exactly he has in mind,
but
> as far as cost of access is concerned, Budapest may be more accessible
than
> Brighton for many Europeans (incl. East, Central, South) and people form
the
> Middle East and Israel). As for the NAmericans - take the most affordable
> flight to a major European airport and then hop on the train. Malev, the
> Hungarian airline is also reputable and affordable.
>
> I would imagine also that meals and lodging may be more reasonably priced
in
> Budapest than elsewhere. The potential for finding new sponsors should not
> be underestimated.
>
> Anybody there NOT attracted to Budapest?
> Certainly, adopting Hungarian as the working language is out of the
> question.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jeremy hunsinger" <jhuns at vt.edu>
> To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 6:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [Air-l] AoIR conference venues
>
>
> > actually, this is one of the executives most talked about issue of
> > late:)  It is my understanding that everyone really wants to have more
> > international conferences.  it is actually very hard to ensure one
> > thing, that the conference will not lose money. The conferences are
> > self-funded, and one major loss could ruin us, so that means that in my
> > opinion we have to have high attendance, somewhat high fees, and have
> > to be very real about money(exchange rates affect percentage profit or
> > loss).
> >
> > also, in my opinion, have a responsibility to our paid members, which
> > sustain the organization, and the majority of those are in North
> > America and Europe.  To me, this means that we have to have the
> > majority of our conferences where they have easy access.  as global
> > membership rises, this changes.
> >
> > as for language, I believe we voted on this two years ago.  the
> > conference will be in English, primarily because we don't have
> > translation capability because it costs too much, and secondarily
> > because when we did try to do it, it did not work well at all.
> >
> > I'm sure that once aoir is on firm financial footing, locations such as
> > Cairo, Budapest, or Sao Paolo, will be attempted, our theoretical
> > timeline for this is about 5 years out,
> >
> > remember of course that aoir is still a smallish organization, with
> > about 400-500 members, so it takes time for the organization to build
> > and grow, especially in terms of fiscal capacity.
> >
> >
> > On Oct 4, 2004, at 5:33 AM, Philipp Budka wrote:
> >
> > > Dear AoIR list members,
> > >
> > > I am participating on the list for about three years. In this period
> > > the
> > > AoIR conference took place in the Netherlands (2002), in Canada
> > > (2003), in
> > > England (2004) and will take place in the US (2005). These venues have
> > > at
> > > least two things in common: they are all countries of the north, and,
> > > apart
> > > from Holland, they are all English speaking countries.
> > > I can imagine that it is very hard to find a conference venue with the
> > > proper infrastructure, academic and financial background, etc. But
> > > wouldn't
> > > it be real international to look at Asia, Southeast Europe or Latin
> > > America
> > > for conference venues. I would love to attend an AoIR conference in
Sao
> > > Paulo, Cairo or Budapest. I am sure this would send real international
> > > signals to the global internet interested community.
> > > Greetings from Vienna,
> > >
> > > Philipp
> > >
> > > --
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> > > philbu at gmx.net
> > > Rustengasse 5/10
> > > A-1150 Wien, Austria
> > > http://www.philbu.net
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