Re^2: Announcing The London Perl & Raku Workshop 2024 (LPW)

[leej]

We believe there are much better venues available - The University of Westminster is overpriced in comparison, with fewer facilities and outdated features.

2019's venue was excellent and half the price, it's a shame we can't use it again.

We have a list of several possible venues that's we're looking into, of course we are open to suggestions so let us know.

[LanX]

The cheapest way to organize a non profit event is to have the patronage of a university or faculty or professor. They could at least cut the prize.

For instance someone in London could try to ask the UCL which is listing bioperl in it's open source repo.

(They used Perl for research and should be interested to keep it alive.)

But we discussed this before and you sit in Switzerland and I'm in Germany.

So someone in London trying to ask those academics would be great.

(Wink! 😉)

[leej]

Yes, we ran the Swiss Perl Workshop on a shoestring budget this way for most of its time as we had venue space provided at near zero cost. However the only "big city" venue was in Bern.

This is harder in London but we're investigating - I've sent an email to UCL, their term restarts today so I'm hoping to get a reply this week

[LanX]

You probably mailed the commercial office of the UCL renting out assets.

It would be worth a try contacting people from the department of computational-biology

And asking if they know of someone inside the university potentially interested to patronage/sponsor the event with a cheaper venue.

Mentioning that the LPW is non profit and that participation is free.

Plus probably a link to "How Perl saved the human genome project" and mentioning that the UCL is using BioPerl. Of course there are more universities in London.

I would do it, but I don't feel comfortable with British in between the line codes of politeness.

For comparison, the local branch of the Chaos Computer Club is running a huge 4 day workshop in my old university for free.