[Tycon3] What kind of conference, decision

[Daniel Hinderink]

Hi folks,

The central question on what kind of conference we wanted to have, was which
audience we want to cater to and also what price range we find acceptable.

I have boiled this down to the question of trying to keep the prices as low
as possible by finding a university to hold the conference, or going for a
hotel to get a more professional setting, thereby raising the bar.

I polled the TYPO3 Association members to this end and got a unison vote,
please find Kaspers statement which is representative for all of us below:

> For the community we already have the snowboard tour. And those will also
> attend T3UGs.
> 
> A professional conference will appeal to business minded people which are now
> either not coming to the snowboard tour due to its profile, or they are taking
> up space on the snowboard tour without really wanting to snowboard or they
> are not finding T3UG meetings their cup of tea.

That means we have decided to give Jürgen the go ahead for Karlsruhe 2005.

I hope you all will help to make this the success the project deserves and
the forum this part of the community has not had yet.

Cheers,

Daniel