[pm-h] YAPC venue contacts

[Will Willis]

What is the extent of your contact with Janet at UHD? I can pickup where you
left off. I don't claim to be a 'PR person', but I attend  UHD and know a
few professors in the CIS/CS departments that may help us get more leverage
with UHD.

I'll also contact a travel agent friend of mine to see what he can do as far
as discounts on airfare, hotels, restaurants, etc.

I'll report any progress made both on this list and on the wiki.

-Will



On 6/14/06, Jeremy Fluhmann <jeremy at msc.tamu.edu> wrote:
>
>  I've decided that we might need to consider having a PR person (or two)
> for interacting with possibly conference venue staff, hotel staff, and
> anyone else that we may need to be contacting.  I've made contact with Janet
> Heitmiller, Director of Community Relations & Conferences at the
> University of Houston Downtown (Heitmillerj at uhd.edu), but decided that
> someone with better social skills than me may better serve the role.  Or,
> maybe we can designate someone to be 'our' contact person for various
> aspects of the proposal.  Something such as having a person or two be the
> contact for hotel information, a person or two be the contact for venue
> possibilities, etc.  Or have a mix-and-match of the following:
>
> * Hotels and accommodations
>
> * Venue(s) (includes conference facilities, on-campus housing options,
> on-campus dining, etc.)
>
> * Houston promoter in general (answers the question, Why Houston?)
>
> * Sponsorship
>
> * Discounts (including airfare, hotels, restaurants, etc.)
>
>
>
> Or maybe we continue like it is and just have people make contact when
> needed.  Thoughts?
>
>
>
> Jeremy
>
>
>
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