[VoCamp Discuss] VoCamp at WWW09?

[Peter Mika]

Hi Marie,

I would be slightly worried by a VoCamp overload, i.e. a VoCamp in Ibiza 
and then another the week after ;)

Peter

Marie-Claire Forgue wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Peter Mika wrote:
>> Hi Marie,
>>
>> Would it be possible to have a two-day event at WWW?
>
> That might be possible though I can't confirmed it yet. Otherwise, I 
> wonder if the set up of a "VoCamp light" version (one day event) is 
> possible too?
>
> Thanks.
> - Marie-Claire.
>
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>> 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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