FUDCon:Bid for Milan 2011

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[edit] FUDcon EMEA 2011 - Milan

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[edit] Local Team


[edit] Date

[edit] Brief description of the city.

Milan, the capital of Lombardy, has a population of 1.3 million people. It is the biggest industrial city of Italy with many different industrial sectors. It is a magnetic point for designers, artists, photographers and models. Milan has an ancient city centre with high and interesting buildings and palazzos, which is why so many people from all over the world want to see the city of glamour.nursery rhymes

Milan is recognized as a world fashion and design capital, with a major global influence in commerce, industry, music, sport, literature, art and media, making it one of GaWC's major Alpha world cities


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[edit] Airports and their distance from lodging and venue

If you arrive to Milan by airplane, you are going to land at one of the following airports:

There are several services (public and private) that connect the Milan city center.

Few examples with updated prices:


[edit] Estimated costs of flights major airports that attendees will travel from

Milan is easily reachable from different international location. All mayor air carries operate to and form Linate and Malpensa Airports, while the low cost carriers operate to and from Orio al Serio and Malpensa airports.

Milan is also well connected with trains to few Europeans cities. Trenitalia is the company that manages the train routes in italy. dental implants


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[edit] Outline of local mass transit

ATM (Azienda Trasporti Milanesi) manages the public transport service of the city of Milan and of 85 towns in the province. It provides underground train, urban tramway, inter-urban tramway, urban bus and trolley bus, interurban bus and airport transfer services.

Metro services operate between 06:00-24:00 and cover three lines. After midnight, a night-time bus service substitutes for lines 1 and 3 of the underground.

There are numerous tram routes that cover Milan. Generally trams run from 06:00-24:00. However, routes 4, 5, 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 24, 29, 30, 33 continue until about 02:00 on weekdays.


[edit] Detailed description of proposed venue

[edit] Università degli Studi di Milano

Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences (Informatics and Communication Building) 

   Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione
   Università degli Studi di Milano
   Via Comelico, 39-41
   20135 Milano
   Italy

All the rooms are basically available for free, but we have to pay a fee to keep the rooms open during the weekend (to pay the surveillance guys). For the 'LinuxDay' (organized in the same venue last November, 2010) the cost was 100 EUR per day (independently of the number of rooms). An estimation for the whole weekend is around 300 EUR. We already found Italian companies (ie: Byte-Code) available to cover these costs.

Andrea Trentini, in charge of the "Free Software Labs" for the University of Milan is our "insider" contact and an extremely helpful facilitator for all the communications with the University. He knows and he can effectively look after all the procedures to make the formal request for the 'booking'.


[edit] Alternatives

We can have more or less the same availability in other public Universities:


[edit] Description of proposed lodging and estimated costs


[edit] Brief description of on the ground resources and their experience with FUDcon/other large events

Francesco Crippa (the one is writing this page ;-) ) (Blog, Facebook, Flickr, Fedora page) has attended many fudcons (USA and EMA) and other fedora events (Fosdem. Linuxtag, etc) in last few years, including events developed in partnership with Red Hat (summit, partner summit, opensource days, etc...) and other companies.

Other Italian/Local folks: please insert here your experience!


[edit] Notation of internet connectivity options for both hotel and conference venue

Internet will be available (wifi) for free on the venue (high speed) and it's free in some of the hotels proposed


[edit] Outline of proximate restaurant location

It's Italy! Restaurant and "Pizzerie" are everywhere. A full 'pizza meal' in Milan (pizza + started/dessert + drink) could cost around 15-20 EUR (30-35 in very nice places). Pizza is perfect for everyone (vegetarian/vegan), cheap, fast and funny (and it's the 'original one'...)

Also traditional Italian restaurant are everywhere...

Some exmaples:


[edit] FUDpub Option

It's still Italy. Easy to find place to drink and have fun! :-). Few suggestions for the FUDPub.


[edit] Deadlines for event reservation, etc

The only real deadline is the formal booking request for the University. It has to be approved by the board that meets only once a month. So 'April' will be the deadline if we want to organize the event for June, 'May' for July and so on.


[edit] Pros and Cons of the proposed location

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