[wp-testers] Detroit Wordcamp?

[Kim Parsell]

Pat -

Aaron Brazell mentioned over the Hackers list this afternoon about 
approaching universities for space to have the Word Camp event in, as 
the costs associated with holding it there are minimal. To quote him:

"Why don't you approach a University? In my experience with PodCamps, WordCamps and BarCamps, the best events are held at Universities. Many times they will give you their space for virtually nothing! For instance, we are doing WordCamp Mid-Atlantic at University of Baltimore. PodCamp Philly was held at Drexel Univ in 2007 and Temple in 2008. The worst events are held in corporate space, IMHO. There's usually too many security issues (can't have walk ups, gotta have badges, etc) and they aren't as cozy."

Put the word out in the blogging community and start connecting with 
other bloggers in the Detroit area to get a committee together to 
organize the event. All of you together can pull this off. ;)

Kim

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Mark Styles wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 02:53:39PM -0500, Paleo Pat wrote:
>   
>> Takes Money. Something I have zero of. I figured some well heeled people
>> that read this list would be willing to fund something like this.
>>     
>
> It doesn't have to take your own money. Find sponsors, find a venue
> willing to host it for free, tell Matt he has to come, and you're all
> set :)
>   
>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Mark Styles <wp-testers at lambic.co.uk>wrote:
>>
>> We had some Detroit folks at the Toronto WordCamp; nice people they were
>> too.
>>
>> If you want one in Detroit, why not organise one? If you build it they
>> will come and all that.
>>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 02:07:21PM -0500, Paleo Pat wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Okay here's a question for the Wordpress people. How come there's never been a Wordpress Wordcamp in Detroit? (or surrounding area?)
>>>>
>>>> It seems mighty funny to me that a piece of software, that is supposed to be about the inclusion of all people, seems to terminally ignore a city of great importance, like Detroit.
>>>>
>>>> There are Bloggers here, we might not be, say Liberal L.A. or Washington
>>>> Beltway types, but we are the automotive capital of the world.
>>>>
>>>> Just irks me a bit, that's all.
>>>>