[hackerspaces] The cost of an International HackerSpace Meeting in Lima Peru

[john arclight]

Well, I speak Spanish and wouldn't mind helping out. Any ideas on dates yet?


Cheers,

John Norman

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Luis Gustavo Lira
<dr_complexity at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi guys
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> Lima is a low cost city compared to other cities as Rio de Janeiro or Buenos Aires.
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> We could cover all the costs of a two days meeting with a minimum of 20 participants and a flat fee of $100.
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> With $2000 we can rent a conference room with a capacity for 160 persons for 2 full days.
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> Of course if we have 50 participants or more we can rent a conference room for a week plus small rooms for parallel sessions, free coffe break and maybe a free city tour.
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> A lot of people is interested in visiting Cusco and Machupichu, Cusco is more expensive than Lima but we could have 1 special meeting in Cusco. But large conference rooms are very expensive, however small conference rooms for 60-70 persons are availables at low cost. With an additional $50 we can have an additional meeting in Cusco.
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> But travelships is the big problem, is very expensive moving people from a continent to other and we need help for getting some sponsors, by example the Fab Lab conference is looking 25k for travelships.
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> We are looking for other hackerspaces interested in co-organize a meeting in Peru. The work of looking for sponsors could be divided by zones, every co-organizer could look for sponsors for support hackerspaces in their zone.
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> By example we could look for sponsors for support members of the hackerspaces from south america.
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> Are you interested???
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