[VoCamp Discuss] VoCamp at WWW09?

[Marie-Claire Forgue]

Hi all,

Happy new year! Just to let you that the offer to host VoCamp during 
WWW09 still stands :)

Thanks.
Best,

- Marie-Claire.

Peter Mika wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Happy New Year to everyone!
> 
> A brief update on VoCamp Barcelona... so we have a room and open wifi in 
> the building and we can have both free of charge. However, there is 
> another option, namely to collocate the event with the next Future of 
> Web Search Workshop, which will take place in Ibiza on the Friday and 
> Saturday before WWW. This workshop is organized by Yahoo! Research 
> Barcelona every year, and it's a larger but still fairly informal 
> gathering as well (no paper submissions). Ibiza has possibly even 
> cheaper hotels, flights would be probably the same, around 50 euros each 
> way. It is not certain yet, but it might be possible that the workshop 
> would also focus on semantic search.
> 
> In light of this somewhat partial information, I'm wondering how many of 
> you feel strongly either for Barcelona or Ibiza, e.g. raise your hand if 
> you would not come if VoCamp would take place in one or the other 
> location. I'm also interested how many of you would attend the Future of 
> Web Search WS. Last year's program can give you an impression of that 
> workshop [1].
> 
> Thanks,
> Peter
> 
> [1] http://grupoweb.upf.es/tfws08/home.html
> 
> 
> 


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