Interest in hosting Akademy 2018

[Aleix Pol]

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 2:18 AM, Stefan Derkits <stefan at derkits.at> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> in 2015 Vienna was the host city for the Eurovision Songcontest. In
> 2018, we would love to host an even better event, KDE Akademy. This mail
> serves as a preliminary indication of interest for Vienna to host
> Akademy 2018.
>
> While there is already some text/info for a proposal, there wasn't
> really time to get detailed information about the most important points:
> Location. The best location would be the Technical University of Vienna,
> but the local student council just finished their biennial elections and
> I was on Holiday for 2 Weeks in May, so it wasn't yet possible to get
> into first contact with University officials. Alternative location would
> be Technikum Wien, which every year hosts the "Linuxwochen Wien".
>
> We would be a small, but motivated team, consisting of a mix of KDE
> people, computer science student council members and other Free Software
> People in Vienna. Additionally we have good contacts to the local
> hackerspace & a few different meetup groups in Vienna.
>
> I as main organizer, apart from organizing the KDE Vienna meetups,
> attending KDE akademies & volunteering at QtCon 2016 have experience in
> organizing big international meetups in Vienna for the CouchSurfing
> Community.
>
> Dear KDE Board, dear Akademy Team, I know organizing an Akademy is no
> small feat. But I think I can speak for the whole KDE AT Community, we
> would love to invite all of KDE to the wonderful city of Vienna. And we
> want to make Akademy 2018 @ Vienna happen.
>
> You can expect a draft proposal soon, but I hope you work together with
> us to check the (financial) feasability & requirements of the location.
>
> Greetings,
> Stefan (horushorrendus @ IRC freenode [#akademy, #kde])
>

Hi Stefan!
Really nice to see Vienna wanting to host Akademy!

I guess you already saw but here's the information regarding the call for hosts.
https://dot.kde.org/2017/04/28/akademy-2018-call-hosts

If there's anything you would like to discuss beforehand don't hesitate to tell.

Regards,
Aleix