Summer EBTM10: Post your candidacy here!

[Elmo]

It is November, so it is that time of the year again to start thinking about the Summer EBT Meeting of next year.

In this topic, you can volunteer to organise Summer EBTM10. This topic will be closed on 15 December, so that before the end of the year we can (if necessary) filter out candidates.

Requirements/conditions/guidelines for organisers

* Two organisers or more. One will be appointed as the main organiser
* The main organiser is at least 21 years old
* The main organiser should be able to communicate in English
* At least one of the organisers should have participated in an official international Eurobilltracker meeting
* At least one of the organisers should live in or know the city where the event will take place very well
* At least one of the organisers should have organised a national EBT meeting

Requirements/conditions/guidelines for candidate city

* The city should have a certain touristic appeal. International EBTM participants will stay for more than one day. They should be able to see more things than they will see on the meeting day. (Touristic examples: Museums, touristic happenings or events, statues, old buildings/churches/castles or other touristic siteseeings, animal zoo, theme parc, concerts, boat or ferry trips...)
* The city should be located near an international airport.
* The city should have a railroad station, preferrable an international railroad station
* There should be youth hostels nearby where people can stay cheap
* There should be a location big enough to host the General Assembly of the Association
* There should be a few restaurants which are able to have a large group of people eating there or two/three restaurants located near eachother which can handle some smaller groups.
* The city has a national bank which can be visited by EBTM-participants or has some sort of euro-related place to visit (Examples: euro parliament, money museum, ... ). This will be considered as a bonus and not that important at all.

Remember this a checklist. If a candidate doesn't match any of these conditions, they still can be a candidate to organise an official international eurobilltracker meeting.
Still, the more requirements a candidate-organising team has, the more credibility the candidacy has.

Candidates place your candidacy here in this thread before 10 January. If you do so, give us the name(s) of the organising team, the city you want to organise Summer EBTM10 in and the dates that you can organise it. A detailed schedule of the event is not needed, the big lines are appreciated.

Please, keep this thread for candidates only!

[avij]

The deadline of 15th December passed some time ago, but unfortunately we haven't received any candidates to host the Summer EBTM in 2010

Quite simply, if there are no candidates, there will be no Summer EBTM in 2010. This would be extremely unfortunate, and therefore we have extended the deadline for candidacy to January 10th 2010 18:00 CET. We urge everyone to examine the possibilities of organizing the international meeting in your country.

The EBT meetings are crucial to our community. Personally, I've been to all international EBTMs so far (in Brussels, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Berlin, Ljubljana, Bologna, Vienna). I have noticed how happy the participants have been to get an opportunity to discuss with other trackers about the details of Euro banknotes and note tracking. Some people have also met their hit partners for the first time in those meetings. The meetings are also an excellent opportunity to get to know the culture & traditions & history of the host city/country. All of this would be lost if there are no candidates to organize the primary EBT meeting of 2010.

So, please, discuss this in your national forums and if you think you could organize a meeting, please step forward. If you have any concerns about the process, please do not hesitate to ask (either in this topic or privately from me via PM). Thank you!

[avij]

Hm, it's still eerily quiet in here..

I'd like to repeat that if there are no candidates, there will be no Summer EBTM in 2010. And we all want to have a summer EBTM, right?

The meeting doesn't have to be held in the capital of that country. It's also not strictly required to have a huge international airport in the city, as long as the city is conveniently reachable by other means (trains etc). The city doesn't need to have a money museum.

Really, all we'd need is a city where we could meet. The details about the meeting can be arranged later on.

Anyone?

[rlaurenssen]

Hm, it's still eerily quiet in here..

I'd like to repeat that if there are no candidates, there will be no Summer EBTM in 2010. And we all want to have a summer EBTM, right?

The meeting doesn't have to be held in the capital of that country. It's also not strictly required to have a huge international airport in the city, as long as the city is conveniently reachable by other means (trains etc). The city doesn't need to have a money museum.

Really, all we'd need is a city where we could meet. The details about the meeting can be arranged later on.

Anyone?

Well.....

I would like to organize a meeting. In the part of the Netherlands where I live, there's lots of stuff to do. But I would like to discus it with a few people from
the Dutch community how they think about it.

Must say that no summer meeting is not really a option.

The part of the country where I live is Called Noord-Brabant, and there are a few large city's which can be visited, there are a few amusement parks (large ones), it's very close to the Belgium and German border and there are plenty of museums which are very interesting.

The region is accessible by air, train and car. We have Eindhoven airport and Weeze airport in Germany, so thats not the problem. But having a meeting here would mean that this would be the fist meeting not to be held in a mayor city, howsoever we would visit more places, which is good for dothunting.

For accommodation there are multiple options, there are hotels and some cheap guest houses.

So if there are no other candidates, I would like to think about it, in the meanwhile I will also discus it on the dutch Forum.

[Schlauchen]

We'd like to suggest Nuremberg, the capital of Franconia, as a candidate city for the summer EBT Meeting 2010!

organizers:
Schlauchen, murble, Schach, Spanier_20, maybe J.R.K.

We had a short meeting today and collected ideas:

* Friday: start with a lunch and in the afternoon a city tour

* Saturday: a train trip, here we have to see what is easy reachable by train. Maybe Bamberg (UNESCO world heritage), Würzburg (the Residence is also UNESCO world heritage), Rothenburg ob der Tauber (a beautiful little city where we'd meet more japanese tourist than germans) or Munich (there's a notes printing machine in the German museum!). Evening BOD-Meeting.

* Sunday: Maybe forming two groups, the historical interested can visit the NS-Reichsparteitagsgelände, the others can go to the very interesting train + communication museum (two museums in one). Maybe there are also interested persons for a third group to the Zoo to visit the famous polar bears .
Official end with the lunch... or something like that, these are only brief ideas

[claudio vda]

I post the candidature of Florence (Firenze), in Italy , for Summer EBT Meeting 2010.

Organizers are: Claudio VdA, Conte Mascetti, Riccccc
Claudio VdA was the organizer of the EBTM-Italy 2009 in Pisa, he went to the EBTM-Italy 2008 in Roma and to the W-EBT2009 in Bologna/Ferrara; he lives in Pisa and he is 27 (more than 21 )
Conte Mascetti lives in Florence.
Riccccc lives in Prato, very close to Florence.

I think Florence have some tourist appeal. The town is quite old (about 3000 years), but it developed during the Middle-Age; during the 14-15th centuries, it conquered the whole Tuscany and became the cradle of the Italian Renaissance: the downtown shows typical architecture of those periods.
Florence was the Italian capital from 1865 to 1870 and now it is the chief town of the Tuscany; here you can find the typical cooking of this Italian district, and of course the “Chianti”, a very good red wine.
The whole downtown is an open-air museum, full of churches, palaces and other buildings of the Late Middle-Age and the Renaissance, but you can find also many art galleries and other museums.

Florence is linked to Europe with trains, highways and 2 international airports (Firenze-Peretola and Pisa-Galilei).

The meeting will be organized around a “core” of two days: if someone will be able to stay only few time, can join Florence during the “core”, if someone wants to stay longer, post-meeting will be also organized.
The meeting will be during a week-end in the second half of July 2010, because in August prices will explode. The date will be decided in the next weeks.

Day O pre-meeting If someone is arrived in Florence, we can organize a little pre-meeting.

Day 1 (core) visit of the downtown. We will visit the cathedral of “Santa Maria del Fiore”, in Italian gothic style, based on large and simple lines and the Baptistery, a little jewel, well know for its doors in golden bronze; we will visit “Piazza della Signoria” and “Palazzo Vecchio”, the center of the political power in the Middle Age, “Ponte Vecchio”, and others monuments. Social dinner with typical cooking of Tuscany. I know: for visit Florence many days are needed, but we will try to show you the best.

Day 2 (core) general assembly of the Association in the morning. Social launch with typical cooking of Tuscany (the dinner of last evening was surely not enough). During the afternoon we will organize a little dothunting.

Day 3 (post meeting) there will be organized 2 activities, and people will choose. (1) visit of the “Uffizi” museum. (2) visit of Pisa (the distance is about 1h of train)

Day 4 not enough? There are many other places to visit across Tuscany! Siena, Lucca, San Gimignano, something more in Florence… and of course many other good things to eat!

Some pictures of Florence downtown


Piazza della Signoria


Palazzo Vecchio, Piazza della Signoria


Baptistery and Cathedral


L. Ghiberti, 1401, panel sketch for the second door of the Baptistery


The Arno River and Ponte Vecchio


Galleria degli Uffizi

[rlaurenssen]

Wow, now we have three possible candidates . Florence looks wonderful to me, I recognize a lot from the game "Assassins Creed II".
It would also be my first time in Italy.

I'm still up for organizing a meeting in the Netherlands, this is the main idea:

Organizers rlaurenssen and maybe Eddydevries and Googlejaps(but perhaps more). I'm 25 and live in the direct area of the meeting points and know it very well. The area is accessible by train and air. Especially with Ryanair you can fly directly to Eindhoven. From Amsterdam, Brussels and Dusseldorf you can
also reach this area by train.

Day 1: General assembly in Eindhoven (the most hotels can be found here or in the area, there are also a lot of camping sites).
Many things we can do in this city like an open air pre-historic museum, PSV football stadium and it's the city where Philips is
founded. In the evening we can eat at a wok-restaurant (I don't know about the rest of Europe, but in Holland it's very popular)
Food and drinks for one price, they can also handle large groups.

Day 2: A day trip to the amusement park "De Efteling". It's a very large park and is oriented on ferry-tales. It has been nominated for the most beatiful park
in the world many times. There is also a possibility for eating with large groups.

Day 3: We can do a trip to the city of Den Bosch, which has a nice historical center. Everyone can explore the city on their own, or we arrange a guide.
In the evening we do a traditional BBQ, I know a few place where we can do this for free.

By the way, since we have 3 candidates at the moment is there going to be a voting?