Exploratory Committee

If you are reading this, you are a member of the Committee!

This is a brainstorming space for a 2008 or 2009 YAPC bid. Angelen[oa] Perl Mongers and those familiar with LA are invited to pitch in ideas and expand upon others.

 Info on preparing a YAPC bid may be found at Yet Another Perl Conference information and documentation. Attendance is typically 400+.

Venue

Los Angeles

• UCLA
• USC
• CSULA
• CSUN
• Caltech
• Loyola Marymount
• CSU Long Beach

Other cities

• Santa Barbara
• UCSB
• Westmont
• San Diego

Generic Questions to consider in discussing venue.

Generic Letter of interest.rtf

Activities

 How do you occupy 400 geeks? Put them in a round room and tell them there's a new MacBook Pro for them in the corner....

• Tuesday night dinner and auction
• Other fun things to do

Transportation

Always a challenge in LA. We need to shuttle hundreds of Mongers from the airport to the venue and from the venue to the dinner?

• Bus map.
• The Big Blue Bus.
• LAX
• Burbank

Convention and Visitors Bureaus

• Los Angeles
• Pasadena
• Santa Barbara

Wisdom from YAPCS Past

For the love of all that is good and holy,

• Do this.
• Don't do that.

Bids

 2006

• Chicago
• Boston
• Vancouver

 2007

• Houston

Brainstormers

Add your name here!
Liz Cortell

Pete Chudykowski

Nimish Parmar

Juan Natera

Dean Johnson

Uri

• Uri