Sensible Days 2015 ?

First of all congrats to all Sensidays 2014 participants (and especially to winners )
It s a great thing you re doing, keeping Swos alive...

I am not talking on behalf of the Italian community, just my opinion.
In Italy there s no Offline community (as far as I know) and that s the first problem.

I made a couple of attempts in the past to create an offline movement, but people were just not interested. I managed to organize a couple of small reunions with some old ss.de members anyway, it s true, but that wasn t even close to my expectations, especially compared to my effort. Just impossible to repeat similar small events and I can say I tried, noone was interested.
Some of the reasons I heard from other people : too busy with other things in life, don t want to spend any money (and some wouldn t even join a free event), don t want to travel (and spend) for swos , just not interested playing offline.
It wouldn t make sense a sensidays in Italy without a big part of the italian community...

Also, organizers.
You won t find many people interested for that too. Maybe they join the event, but don t ask them to help you or do something. I m pretty sure it s like this in almost every community or in a small group of friends that play offline.
A few years ago I bought all the necessary Amiga Hardware (monitors, amiga 1200s, video cables) for a sensidays with the help of lemonheadiv, plus we started buying controllers.
At some point a couple of years ago I was so disappointed nobody was interested in offline (even for a very low cost small event) that I decided to sell everything I had and not to play swos offline anymore.
Even telling them something like tell me a date you are available, you don t have to pay anything here if you don t want to, I ll pay for the room, free food and drinks, all hardware available, you just have to come here and play didn t work.
Back to organization, except for lemonheadiv nobody else was even remotely interested in organizing, however, talking about sensidays, I consider 6 organizers a bit too much, 3-4 I am sure would be enough (as long as they have the money for advanced payments and organization).

Northern Italy would be a perfect location, especially the area where I live, near Orio al Serio Airport (a lot of low-cost flights). Milan would be ok too, but location there would cost a lot more than anywhere else.

Another problem is in Italy you won t find those cheap and big hostels you can find in northern Europe. Choice is very limited, many places have this but not that , prices are higher than in other nations (and often offer lower standards ).
To rent a place for a 3-4 days event would cost way way more here than in other countries and no organizers/no people interested means noone wants to pay a cent for organization.

I would be happy to see sensidays in Italy one day, but at the moment is highly unlikely.

Looks like Sensi Days wont be in Italy in the near future [...]

I would like to be clear: that s just my opinion.
I really would like to know the opinion of other italians on this subject.

Hotels in Denmark are EXPENSIVE. Just ask Marin and others who stayed on a hotel, when they were here. We booked a boyscout-house and got it to a quite a nice price, but it was far away from everything and I guess if people have to complain about something in Denmark, it should be about that.

It wouldnt have been affordable to anyone if it had been on a hotel e.g. close to Copenhagen like they did in Berlin last year.

As I said we have not many hostels in Italy and everything here is expensive, especially considering what you get in return: tourists know that well.

So it s almost impossible to find a hostel with enough rooms, enough space, not to mention close to a city. If you re lucky to find something similar to your boyscout-house here maybe they have the rooms but not the space for the event, or the opposite or they don t allow noise after 24 or it s not clean... etc. etc. and it would still be more expensive than any other place in sensidays history.
Unless you own a hostel or something like that (or you know well someone who does) or you know an agriturismo big enough for sensidays that offers you a huge discount, you ll have no luck here.