DebConf 2021 bid for Kosovo
?DebConf21 should take place in Kosovo for these reasons:
- Its in Europe
- Cheap prices on anything.
- Venue is big and fulfils the needs of the conference with many auditoriums, hack labs, small rooms, place for bar. With projectors and sound systems.
- Venue is located at the university campus, on the city centre, surrounded with shops, banks, bars and restaurants.
- Multiple large hotels close to the venue (One is enough).
- Most of the participants will not need a visa. Easy to come through the Prishtina International Airport.
- Beautiful cities with Albanian, Ottoman and Byzantine architecture.
- Delicious food with a really cheap price. Traditional and international.
Most of the people speak English, so interaction is not a problem. (English is an official language)
- Sunny weather on July.
- Debian supports diversity, let us give a chance to a newly founded state bursting on technology.
Presentation at DebConf19:
Venue
- University campus, we will use two buildings.
- Auditorium with 400 seats.
- Mini-auditorium with 200 seats.
- Two hacklabs.
- Small rooms as many as needed.
- Comforting place to locate the bar.
Accommodation
- Most likely we will use the university dorms, with the capacity of 4000 people. Conditions are really good. The price would be around 50Eur for person for the whole 2 weeks.
The distance is 300m from the venue.
- Many hotels around the venue, with only 10m walk.
Travel and visa
- Direct flights to most of European airports and Turkey.
You could use the airport of countries near by also. Albania airport North Macedonia airport Montenegro airport Serbia airport
Most participants will not need a visa. Check here if you need one: visa.
- Taxi companies operating from airport to any city.