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Ideas for venues?

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Ragear:
ok, I modified the starting post accordingly to Cheetah's additional criteria. I suppose when germany is prefurred most of the locations will already be known to the staff, but let's give it a try :-)

*hugs*

Ragear

BigBlueFox:
Germany is not only preferred, but it's definitely required.

The reason for that is that roughly 90% of the staff is German. We know German laws, regulations, requirements. We can negociate with offices, bureaus, authorities and businessmen in our native language only. Eurofurence has grown to a point where we can no longer fly under the radar, we have to comply with the local laws with everything we do, be it serving of alcohol, controling the access of minors, public performance of music, usage of lasers, security issues, providing first responders for possible medical issues...

Also, EF owns more than a truckload of equipment that is ultimately required to run this convention. You may not be aware of this, but every year, we haul a truck and several station wagons and vans filled up to the rooftop to the convention site. Also, we rent a truck full of lighting gear from a company that keeps things affordable for us because we've been working with them for many many years.

Moving countries would mean that we'd lose that benefit. We'd have to rely on a different lighting company that would make things much more expensive. Then, there's all the red tape involved: most of the staff would have to invest weeks and months learning about the different local laws. It would completely change the face of EF when suddenly, serving of alcohol gets regulated in ways like the UK does. Moving our equipment is a logistical problem that is nearly impossible to solve.

So as much as I hate to say it, but at this point it's no longer to just roam around Europe. EF is now a big player and all the red tape involved is time consuming enough. We couldn't do this any longer in a different country. EF 9 in the Czech Republic was a lesson for us.

Wawik:

--- Quote from: BigBlueFox on 19.08.2012, 22:00:41 ---Germany is not only preferred, but it's definitely required.

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Gyroplast:
YMMD.

Dhary Montecore:
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