Wikimania 2010/Bids/Montpellier
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Wikimania 2010 candidate cities:
Amsterdam - Gdańsk - Oxford
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About Montpellier
[edit]City Info
[edit]Information about Montpellier city (In french or in english)
Touristic review
[edit]- (French) Le routard
- (French) Good addresses by cityvox.fr
- (French) Yahoo Travel
- (English) (Spanish) (German) (French) Montpellier Gay
Climate details
[edit]Weather at Montpellier in July | |
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Higest Temperature | 29.4°C |
Lowest Temperature | 19.6°C |
Total precipitation | 2.2 mm |
Sunshine | 335 hours |
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City details
[edit]- Country: France
- City proposed: Montpellier
- Proposed dates: in august 2010 to be determinate
- Contact person(s): see here
Conference venue
[edit]- brief description of venue
- Main hall: Auditorium Berlioz between 1000 and 2010
- Seminar rooms: Auditorium Pasteur 745
- Lounge facilities: Auditorium Einstein 318
- Other rooms: 4 Level of possible exposition
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- Socializing areas (Garden, lounge etc.), their capacity and the hours at which they are opened/closed: Esplanade Charles de Gaulle, and Garden of champs de Mars which ares garden.
- Contacts with conference venue (emails, price quotes etc.)
- Technical facilities
- Existing technical installations
- Possibilitied to record interventions
- Visio conference
- Wireless Network implementation
- Existing technical installations
- Ethernet network with between 512 Kb/s to 10 Mb/s
- Already conference in the Corum Source:
- Assemblées générales MAIF/CAMIF
- Conférence Internationale sur les Zéolites
- Congrès d'immuno-rhumatologie
- Congrès européen de gynécologie endocrinienne
- Congrès de la fédération nationale de la presse française
- Congrès de la société européenne d'urgence cardio-vasculaire
- Congrès de la société française de chirurgie de la main
- Congrès de la société française de radioprotection
- Congrès de radio-biologie
- Congrès des Aéroports de Langue Française
- Congrès des dirigeants commerciaux de France
- Congrès des Experts Comptables
- Congrès des neurosciences
- Congrès des notaires
- Congrès des pharmaciens
- Congrès des SEM
- Congrès du syndicat national des agents de voyage
- Congrès européen Jermov, Ophtalmologie et Vision
- Congrès international de photosynthèse
- Congrès mondial d'Espéranto
- Congrès mondial de génétique animale appliquée
- Congrès national de la société française de pédiatrie
- Congrès national du gaz
- Congrès mondial de médecine légale
- Congrès mondial de Sciences du Sol
- Congrès mondial sur la fertilité et la stérilité
- Congrès national de l'Ordre des Experts Comptables
- Congrès national de la CFDT
- Convention Alcatel
- Convention GMF
- Conventions Ford, Seat, Peugeot, Volvo, Renault et Citroën
- Convention fédération nationale du Crédit Agricole
- Convention Sogea
- Forum de l'investissement
- Forum des psychologues
- Journée des Présidents et Directeurs de la MSA
- Journées internationales de l'IDATE
- Jubilée Tupperware
- Salon Euro-Méditerranéen Coiffure & Esthétique
- Salon de l'étudiant
- Salon de l'immobilier
- Séminaire des laboratoires Glaxo
- Symposium laboratoires Bellon
- Vœux Sanofi
Volunteer
[edit]There is an IRC Channel for talk in live. To support Wikimania Montpellier on Facebook.
Local Team
[edit]No local Team
[edit]Supporter
[edit]Budget
[edit]Type | Category | Items | Description | Total cost | Notes | |
€uro | USD | |||||
expenditure | ||||||
Venue | Hall, rooms and basic technical facilities | 3 days | Amount 48000 | |||
Technical Facilities : WiFi, A/V recording | 4 days | Amount 1100 | Halls are good equiped in audiovisual. | |||
Accomodation | rooms + breakfast | 350 rooms * 4 days | ||||
Insurance | for 500 attendees | |||||
Registration, Exhibition and Open Bar | Amount 17000 | |||||
Promotional Materials | Posters, flags, t-shirts, mates, pins, souvenirs | for 500 attendees | Amount 4000 | |||
Conference Materials | Badges,wikibooks, maps | for 500 attendees | ||||
Transportation | in fonction of the city | for 400 attendees + 50 VIP | ||||
Organization team | Transportation, volunteers (50), uniforms, security | |||||
Scholarships | 50 full scholarships | |||||
Speakers | 7 speakers | |||||
Party | General party | 400 attendees | We expect dedicated sponsors for general party. | |||
VIP party | 30 VIP | We expect dedicated sponsors for general party. | ||||
recipe | Entrance to the Conference | Price to be determinated | ||||
Total amount to be raised |
calculated assuming 1 USD = ?? €uro
Currency
[edit]The euro (ISO 4217: EUR) is the currency of Europe, and the symbol used locally for it is €. There are exchange desks in some bank, or change.
Exchange rates as of July 14, 2008 for currencies exchanged in France. Source: xe.com
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Probably the best choice is to come with Euros and a credit or debit card.
Cost of life
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- Food
- Hot dog - 2.5€ ($4 USD)
- Pizza (traditional size) - 8€ ($12.7 USD)
- Steak with salad and drink - 15€ ($24 USD)
- Transportation Costs
Media and communications
[edit]- Mobile phones
There are three mobile operators in France: Orange, SFR (or Vodafone for europeans) and Bouygues Télécoms. If you like to be able to use your GSM phone in France, check if your device can operate in these bands.
Accommodation
[edit]- 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
- Hotel ** and ***, Singles or doubles. Between 55€ ($66) and 77€ ($93) per day
- Hostelin international. Amount 18€ per night (22$)
- Catering (one meal a day, breakfast is a plus)
- Breakfast cost 8€ ($12) at the hotel or the cafe in downtown 2€ ($2,4) - Meal cost between 5€ ($6) and 22€ ($27) (to be determinated)
- Contacts with accommodation partner(s)
- (Have you contacted the proposed locations, exchange of emails, price quotes etc.)
Party opportunities
[edit]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
- Sponsor party(ies) proposition
Travel and transportation
[edit]To come to Montpellier (from beyond France)
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Continent | Departure to Montpellier | through | Travel Time | Estimated Cost (€uros) |
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Africa | Alger | Paris CDG | 4h00 | ~500 |
Bamako | Paris CDG and Paris ORL | 8h00 | ~870 | |
Beirut | Paris CDG | 5h30 | ~630 | |
Casablanca | Paris CDG | 5h00 | ~430 | |
Dakar | Lisbonne and Paris CDG | 9h00 | ~1200 | |
Dubai | Amsterdam and Paris CDG | 7h30 | ~1160 | |
Le Caire | Amsterdam and Paris CDG | 10h00 | ~500 | |
Le Cap | Amsterdam and Paris CDG | 17h00 | ~1000 | |
Tunis | Paris CDG | 4h00 | ~500 | |
Americas | Buenos Aires | Paris | 16h30 | ~1300 |
Lima | Miami and Paris CDG | 20h00 | ~1950 | |
Los Angeles | Houston and Paris CDG | 19h00 | ~1200 | |
Mexico | Houston and Paris CDG | 24h00 | ~900 | |
Montreal | Paris CDG | 15h30 | ~750 | |
New-York | Amsterdam and Paris | 15h00 | ~1000 | |
Rio de Janeiro | Paris CDG | 22h00 | ~1200 | |
Asia/Ocenia | Beijin | Paris CDG | 15h00 | ~1000 |
Melbourne | Singapour and Paris | 24h00 | ~1500 | |
Seoul | Paris CDG | 10h00 | ~1260 | |
Shangai | Amsterdam and Paris CDG | 12h00 | ~1200 | |
Sydney | Hong Kong and Paris CDG | 18h00 | ~2200 | |
Taipei | Hong Kong and Paris | 20h00 | ~1200 | |
Tokyo | Amsterdam and Paris CDG | 18h00 | ~1900 | |
Europe | Amsterdam | Paris CDG | 2h30 | ~550 |
Athen | Roma FCO and Paris CDG | 13h00 | ~620 | |
Berlin | Paris CDG and Paris ORL | 5h30 | ~400 | |
Copenhage | Paris CDG | 7h00 | ~500 | |
Dublin | Paris | 4h30 | ~500 | |
London | Direct | 2h30 | ~90 | |
Madrid | Lyon | 4h00 | ~400 | |
Moscow | Milan and Paris CDG | 6h00 | ~650 | |
Roma | Lyon | 3h30 | ~400 |
To come to Montpellier (France)
[edit]- TGVMed: Between 25 € (30$) and 150 € (180$) and between 10€ (12$) and 30€ (36$) for the TER
- Orly CDG-Montpellier Airport: 1 hour and 10 minutes, more than 20 travels between Orly and Montpellier Airport per day
- Distance from international airports and how do we get to the location, 20 minutes (in summer) from Montpellier Airport in fonction of the circulation.
- Railway station is neer a tramway station ("Gare de Montpellier"), the distance between the railway station ans the corum in tramway is around 5 minutes.
- Local transportation and local social opportunities
- Two Tram line and numerous bus line
Visa issues
[edit]- Visa issues
Countries whose citizens will require visas for entry in France are in orange. Those where no visa is required are shown in gray. The black show France or Territories of France. - 60€ or (between 80 to 90 $ in fonction of cost of euro)
- Visa waiver (less than 90 days) : Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Bermuda, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Holy See, Honduras, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Monaco, Nicaragua, New Zealand, Panama, Paraguay, San Marino, Singapore, South Korea, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China and the Special Administrative Region of Macao of the People’s Republic of China, Citizen of Shengen area which include Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden, and for Switzerland, Monaco and french citizen of course.[3]
Tourism opportunities
[edit]Montpellier try to be a tourism destination. That why, there are more and more attraction, like the Place de la comédie, the Zoo of Montpellier (free) with its Serre Amazonienne (Amazonian Greenhouse), an all new Aquarium named "Mare Nostrum" that mean our sea in latin, it's open between 10am to 10pm in august, neer the aquarium, there are Bowling/Karting complex, a Lasergame, a cinema complex, an ice skating rink, a big center commercial (which is open in september 2009), the planetarium galillée which is a 3D theather and the beach at an half hour of Montpellier. There are too Les Rochers de Maguelone, where there are "17 adventure trails, including a breathtaking 200 m zip wire, as well as 20 fun and educational games".
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Social opportunities
[edit]Montpellier is a student city, that why there are numerous nightlife and sport to discover at Montpellier. With the website A place for young people (EN). If you want to go to a restaurant, you could choose it on linternaute.com (FR), bars and pubs on cityvox.fr (FR). There are numerous Michelin starred in Montpellier like "Le Jardin des Sens" by the brothers Pourcel (****) or the "Domaine de Soriech" by Michel Lousteau (***) and more...
Local sponsorship opportunities
[edit]Possibility of local sponsorships
- Contacts
- (no name needed, just "company X, 4000 USD or will provide 300 beds)
Miscellaneous
[edit]Anything you feel should be brought to the attention of the jury.
Self-evaluation
[edit]- Weaknesses of the proposed location ...and how to overcome those weaknesses
- Strengths of the proposed location
- In the town center, hotels and transportation.
- South of France with a great weather.
- Wifi
- Into the Schegen area
Notes and References
[edit]- ↑ Website of Montpellier
- ↑ a b (French) TAM Ticket price
- ↑ (English) Getting a Visa for France on diplomatie.gouv.fr