[VoCamp Discuss] VoCamp at WWW09?

[Peter Mika]

Hi Tom,

The train from Madrid to Barcelona is as expensive (or more) than 
flying. Flying is about 50 euros, try e.g. vueling.com.

In terms of timing, the workshop in Ibiza is on Friday/Saturday. If we 
go to collocate, should it be Wednesday/Thursday then? Or Thursday and 
Sunday?

Cheers,
Peter

Tom Heath wrote:
> 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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