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

[hippo]

From the linked announcement:

We don't want to go back to the University of Westminster

I attended 2 or 3 LPWs previously at that venue and it seemed to be pretty good to me. If the reason for not returning there is logistical, could this not be overcome?

OTOH, if it is non-logistical (eg. financial, political, bad blood, whatever) then so be it.

It's good to see LPW returning anyway, wherever it ends up.

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much better venues available - The University of Westminster is overpriced in comparison, with fewer facilities and outdated features.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