The Columbus Public Library has been selected as the venue for PyOhio 2008.

Parking in the attached garage costs $4 / day; consider carpooling or using public transportation, as well.

The following notes are being left here for future use (planning PyOhio 2009, for example.)

Venue Considerations

• Room for approximately 100-150 attendees.

• A single room or area big enough to hold everyone for a plenary session or two.

  • (Is a plenary session mandatory? - CatherineDevlin)

• Space to break up into 2 concurrent talks of ~50 attendees each, plus 2 Open Space groups of ~ 20 each
• Wireless! Absolutely crucial if we have sprints, very desirable otherwise

Possible Venues

• Ohio Supercomputing Center

  • They did, after all, put this on: http://www.osc.edu/press/releases/2007/python.shtml

• Universities / colleges
  • - OSU - Ohio University: Lancaster Campus (30 mi SE of Columbus) - Columbus State Community College - Franklin University - Otterbein - Ohio Dominican
• High schools
• Library

  • The Columbus Public Library has a very generous policy on letting groups meet: http://evanced.columbuslibrary.org/evanced/lib/roomrequest.asp

  • Auditorium fits "200" (I think that's optimistic, but the point is it should be enough for us, even for a plenary)
  • Auditorium has 22 power outlets; that should be fine, especially if we supplement with some power strips
  • Can serve food in auditorium
  • "Board room" seats 30
  • "the Loft", classroom with 20 computers already in place
  • 2 small conference rooms seating 15 and 10
  • Some of the rooms come with projectors
  • Lots of extra spaces could be used as overflow open space: glassed-in group study areas, etc.
  • They're OK with us reserving all the rooms
  • Rooms are pretty
  • Wireless
  • No charge
  • Well-known, central location
  • Accessible by bus
  • Parking in attached garage is not free (but it's $4 / day, that's really not bad)
  • Rooms are not all contiguous (but I think it's OK for people to walk through the library a little bit)
• Private company
  • Anyplace with substantial Python-using population might be willing
• Training companies
  • The Cincinnati and Dayton branches of New Horizons have been friendly to user groups; is that true of Columbus?

• OCLC

  • It looks like a nice facility, and it's said they have some Python users. My only worry is that they'll want $, but it can't hurt to ask.
• Art centers, community centers
  • I believe these would all require payment.