Wikimania 2009/Bids/Karlsruhe
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Wikimania 2009 official bids:
Brisbane - Buenos Aires - Karlsruhe - Toronto
Questions and Answers:
Brisbane | Buenos Aires | Karlsruhe | Toronto
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[edit] City details
- Country: Germany
- City proposed: Karlsruhe (Translation: ar, bg, ca, cs, da, de, et, el, es, eo, fa, fr, ko, hr, id, it, he, la, lb, mk, nl, ja, no, nn, pl, pt, ro, ru, sq, simple, sr, fi, sv, tr, vo, zh)
- Proposed dates (Friday to Sunday): August 7th to 9th, 2009, with possibility of arriving on the Thursday night and leaving on Monday morning
- Contact persons: Wilhelm Kawana Bühler, Hauke Löffler
[edit] Conference venue
We have three different locations in Karlsruhe, where we can offer a conference for up to 2000 people. All locations are connected to the city centre by local transport within 20 minutes.
A wireless network and other conference facilities are available.
[edit] Kongresszentrum Karlsruhe
The Kongresszentrum is a fully equipped convention centre in the city centre and the proposed location.
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- Main hall: up to 2000 people
- Seminar rooms: 17
- Lounge facilities: 5
- Other rooms (organisation, staff, speakers, interviews/press, storage): yes
If we need more rooms, we can walk to the university.
The zoo is next to the Kongresszentrum, the Schlossgarten (garden of the castle) is 10 Minutes to walk.
[edit] Other conferences
The month before, about 1500 physicists will discuss magnetism there http://www.icm2009.org/
Until 2006 the LinuxTag was hosted at the Kongresszentrum Karlsruhe.
[edit] Accommodation
- Location of main accommodation facilities
- (where can the attendees be hosted. On site, off site, how far from conference venue? For attendees? For VIPs?)
- Room details and price range
- (What's the accommodation like? Dorms, B&B, Hotel? Singles, doubles? How much does it cost per person and per day?)
- Catering (one meal a day, breakfast is a plus)
- (Where do we eat, how much it costs)
- Contacts with accommodation partner(s)
- (Have you contacted the proposed locations, exchange of emails, price quotes etc.)
[edit] Party opportunities
Wikimania traditionally hosts two parties, one for attendees (capacity of 250-350) and one for sponsors and VIPs (capacity 40-60).
- Attendees party(ies) propositions
- serveral locations, Karlsruhe is for example its university campus inside the city centre
- Sponsor party(ies) proposition (accessible by local trams or VIP-coaches)
- there are several castles to rent
- we can hire a ship on the river rhine
- we can have a party at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (Centre for art and technology of media)
- Special location
- within the city centre there is a brewery, that can host the two parties within one (large) building on different floors and offer hotel-rooms on its area.
[edit] Travel and transportation
[edit] Air flights
Flight costs listed are roundtrip!
The following table was made on Feb 14, 2008, using information from expedia.com for August 8 to August 11, 2008. There is currently no information for August 2009 - so no „special prices“ available.
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Destination is FRA, maybe Strasbourg (France, SXB), Baden-Baden/Karlsruhe (Germany, FKB) Stuttgart (Germany, STR), Basel (Switzerland, BSL) is cheaper for special destinations. And it's cheaper to fly from Berlin to Karlsruhe.
- Distance from international airport(s)and how do we get to the location:
- about one hour by train: Baden Airpark, Frankfurt Airport, Strasbourg Airport
- less than two hours by train: Stuttgart Airport, EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg
[edit] Train
Europeans may want to check train-connections to Karlsruhe Mainstation (Hauptbahnhof).
Direct connections are available to destinations outside Germany:
- Paris (France) with TGV
- Basel/Zurich/Chur/Bern (Switzerland)
- Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
- Copenhagen (Denmark)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Milan (Italy)
- Vienna/Salzburg/Linz (Austria).
It's not cheap, but not everybody likes to use airplanes inside europe.
[edit] more
- Local transportation and local social opportunities
- (Wikimania usually does not offer dinner. What are the surroundings of the location like? Lots of restaurants and places to hang out? What is the local transportation like?)
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- Local transportation with tramways (well known as en:Karlsruhe model, Wikimania-special-tickets possible)
- over 350 bicycles to rent are available (Wikimania-special-tickets possible)
- The location is near the city centre, everything you need is available.
- Visa issues
- Tourism opportunities
- Karlsruhe itself :) and Heidelberg (40 min) or Black Forest (30 min)
- Rhine - we can offer session or party on the river Rhine.
- Alsace and Paris (3h)
[edit] Local sponsorship opportunities
- Conference venue will be fully sponsored, no rent for conference rooms, internet, wireless internet
- special rates for public transport (should be)
- special rates for 350 bicycle to rent
- do we need VIP-coaches?
[edit] Local team
(Who stands behind this bid, who will be able to help locally, names and what they can help with)
- Wilhelm Kawana Bühler (main contact, works in e-science, organiser of an international e-science conference near Karlsruhe 2007 with 300+ people, Wikipedian, city wiki Karlsruhe)
- Hanno Rince Wagner (Wikipedian, was in the team of "Wikimania 2005 network")
- Chuck Smith (Esperanto Wikipedia Founder, attended all previous Wikimanias) - will help proofread English documents
- Karlsruhe has its own non-profit wiki-association with more than 40 members, founder is Hauke Löffler (contact to regional and national sponsors, Wikipedian, founder of the city wiki of Karlsruhe, de:Stadtwiki Karlsruhe)
- Church of emacs (Wikipedian)
- and others from de:Wikipedia:Karlsruhe (Wikipedians from Karlsruhe)
- Beate Paland (Wikipedian, local city wiki, one of three organisers of the yearly ruby on rails conference in germany)
- to be asked
- a very active knowledge-management-association (more sponsor contacts)
- an active open source community
- including openstreetmap-community detailed and free as in CC-by-sa
- including the Karlsruhe local team of the largest European Open Source event LinuxTag
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Will the conference and the flights to it be carbon neutral?
- It depends :) Inside Europe you can take the plane or one of the high-speed-trains. Some will use the cheapest, some will use the greener transportation. But we will try to find a balancing between greenhouse gas emissions with renewable energy.
- Karlsruhe is the place of birth of the The Green Party in Germany and we will make the conference as environmental friendly as possible.
[edit] Self-evaluation
- Weaknesses of the proposed location ...and how to overcome those weaknesses
- next international airport (Frankfurt Airport) is 65 minutes away by train. But if you're in Karlsruhe, you have only short distances. Within europe you can use trains.
- Strengths of the proposed location
- Karlsruhe has a dedicated and experienced team, that is linked to science and communities, and an own legal entity
- the region of Karlsruhe has other free knowledge efforts and projects, for example
- free maps (OpenStreetMap)
- Researcher of the University of Karlsruhe work on Semantic MediaWiki and worked on Creative Commons licensing
- local information is stored in a MediaWiki: Stadtwiki Karlsruhe, which is the world largest free city wiki (Wikimania 2009 will push this into a multilingual project in German, English, French, Spanish and maybe others)
- The TechnologieRegion Karlsruhe combines economy, research and culture: in Karlsruhe both art and savoir vivre have found a home.
- The Wikimania 2009 will have mostly everything within walking distances, but you can always take a tram.
