[VoCamp Discuss] VoCamp at WWW09?

[Peter Mika]

Hi Marie,

Would it be possible to have a two-day event at WWW?

Thanks,
Peter

Marie-Claire Forgue wrote:
> 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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