[VoCamp Discuss] VoCamp at WWW09?

[Tom Heath]

Hi Peter, all,

Wow, nice idea. I really like the idea of co-locating VoCamp alongside
another event, particularly where that event has an audience that will
be mostly new to the VoCamp idea. That's a strong argument for me in
favour of Ibiza. From a practical point of view these two locations
make little difference for me, although I guess I would want to know
that flights to Ibiza from within Spain weren't going to be
significantly more expensive than the train from within Spain (i.e. I
don't want people based in Spain to miss out if they are short on
funds). One final question, would VoCamp get a dedicated day/two days
within/adjacent to the workshop programme, or would it be competing
with many parallel activities/events? Regarding your other question,
if I was in the area already for VoCamp, then time permitting I would
be very interested to attend the Web Search workshop.

HTH,

Tom.


2009/1/7 Peter Mika <pmika at yahoo-inc.com>:
> 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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