<html><head></head><body>Thanks Luigi!<br>
All good news.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Il 2 aprile 2018 10:21:56 GMT-04:00, Luigi Pirelli <luipir@gmail.com> ha scritto:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">Hi<div><br></div><div>A short resume of the meeting I had with Coruña municipality Tourist and Congress office.</div><div><br></div><div>Presents:</div><div>Julio Fernandez (Tourist and Congress office - TCO)</div><div>Jose Maria Ares Abalo (Coruña municipality - IT office responsible)</div><div>Me</div><div><br></div><div><b>***Dates</b>:</div><div>A possible date for the conf could be in the week from <b>4-10 of MArch 2019</b>. The main reason is to overlap with Carnival. The reason are:</div><div>1) School holidays that facilitate family participation</div><div>2) Some work holidays that can facilitate hackers to come</div><div>3) Many interesting activities related with the carnival in Galicia (called "Entroido"), that can attract people to the conference to remain until the end of carnival (9)</div><div>4) Low season to reduce hotel costs</div><div><br></div><div><b>***possibile UserConf Venue:</b></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">in </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);float:none;display:inline">priority</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>order:</span></div><div><b>1) Agora civic center</b></div><div> - belog to municipality</div><div> - Big conference area <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><a href="http://www.coruna.gal/agora/gl/servizos/teatro-auditorio" target="_blank">http://www.coruna.gal/ago<wbr>ra/gl/servizos/teatro-auditori<wbr>o</a></span></div><div> - more than two conf room for parallel events -<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><a href="http://www.coruna.gal/agora/gl/servizos/salas-polivalentes" target="_blank">http://www.coruna.gal/agora/g<wbr>l/servizos/salas-polivalentes</a></span></div><div> - Three meeting rooms ( in the LIbreary area)</div><div> - full of meeting area</div><div> - Library with facilities for children</div><div> - Coffee area</div><div> - Contact: Begoña Llamosa (task by Javier Marias + Luigi)</div><div>2) Old Jail</div><div> - Pending to be reformed (not clear dates)</div><div> - Interest to start to use this public place as soon it's reformed</div><div>3) University</div><div> - Full of conference facilities</div><div> - Almost out of the city :(</div><div>4) Muncyt tech musueum</div><div> - Big conference room</div><div> - not managed by the municipality => introduce more bureaucracy to use it</div><div>5) Domus tech museum</div><div> - not so big conference room (no more than 120 persons)</div><div> - belongs to municipality</div><div> - Flexible to have parallel meeting rooms</div><div><br></div><div><b>***possible Hackmeeting venue:</b></div><div>in <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">priority</span> order:<br></div><div><b>1) Domus tech museum</b></div><div> - conference room (no more than 120 persons)</div><div> - belongs to municipality</div><div> - Flexible to have parallel meeting rooms</div><div> - The space would be the Bricolabs hackerspace</div><div> - Contact: Manuel Miramontes (Task by Luigi)</div><div><div>2) Old Jail</div><div> - Pending to be reformed (not clear dates)</div><div> - Interest to start to use this public place as soon it's reformed</div><div>3) University</div><div> - Full of conference facilities</div><div> - Almost out of the city :(</div></div><div><br></div><div><b>***Turist facilities:</b></div><div>- Turist bag with maps + March tourist activites program + Coruña card (see later)</div><div>- Coruña card to acces to all Coruña museums (Domus, Science Museum with planetaium, Aquarium and more)</div><div>- Bus service if necessary to reach Agora civic center form main hotels</div><div>- Tourist guide in different languages</div><div>- Tourist guide for childrens</div><div>- Not yet available a way to use public bike sharing service. They are changing system to allow to hire bikes not only to Coruña citizens.</div><div>- We'll plan a meeting (Task Julio Fernandez) with Hotel Association representant to fix a common hotel rate. We'll fix the meeting after we fix the venue (Task Luigi)</div><div>- "Casa del Agua" (<a href="http://termaria.es/">http://termaria.es/</a>) SPA (Task Julio Fernandez) could offer discount entrance (children can enter only during we :( )</div><div><br></div><div><b>***Foods:</b></div><div>Seems that the simplest way (from the burocratic point of view) to manage food <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">(lunch, buffets or dinner)<span> is </span></span>that the Municipality would sponsor some food and QGIS local organization manage it.</div><div><br></div><div>***Families:</div><div>With all the museum available (through the "Coruña card") and child activities of these museums plus the activities related wit the Carnival, seem this UserConf/HAckmeeting can be assumes as a Family Friendly event.</div><div>We <b>still have to plan</b> more activities for children that leave more time to the partner in charge of the children during the conferences.</div><div><br></div><div><b>***Amenities</b></div><div>- Micho Garcia (gfoss activist and professional) is an experienced surfer that accepted to plan Surf activities in Orzan beach just inside the city right down the possible hackmeeting place (Domus).</div><div><br></div><div><b>***Hackatons</b></div><div>Work in progress</div><div><br></div><div>Luigi Pirelli<br><br>******************************<wbr>******************************<wbr>******************************<wbr>********<br>* LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/lu<wbr>igipirelli</a><br>* Stackexchange: <a href="http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli" target="_blank">http://gis.stackexchange.com/u<wbr>sers/19667/luigi-pirelli</a><br>* GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/luipir" target="_blank">https://github.com/luipir</a><br>* Mastering QGIS 2nd Edition:<br>* <a href="https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/mastering-qgis-second-edition" target="_blank">https://www.packtpub.com/big-d<wbr>ata-and-business-intelligence/<wbr>mastering-qgis-second-edition</a><br>* Hire me: <a href="http://goo.gl/BYRQKg" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/BYRQKg</a><br>******************************<wbr>******************************<wbr>******************************<wbr>********<br><br></div></div>
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