GUADEC 2007 Location

The Venue

GUADEC 2007 will be held in The UCE Birmingham Conservatoire, in Birmingham, UK.

The UCE Birmingham Conservatoire is an internationally renowned concert and music study location. Situated at the heart of the city centre, it has a large number of rooms of varying sizes, including the 520-seater Adrian Boult Hall. It also hosts a licensed bar, and a coffee shop.

Situated in Paradise Place, at the cultural heart of Birmingham; it is only a few minutes' walk away from Symphony Hall, five minutes' walk from New Street station and 10 minutes' from Snow Hill.

The UCE Birmingham Conservatoire was founded in 1886 as the Birmingham School of Music, which had been a department of, and stands on the original site of, the Birmingham and Midland Institute, since around 1859. The title 'Birmingham Conservatoire' was adopted in 1989.

Find out more...

The UCE Birmingham Conservatoire entry on Wikipedia
The UCE Birmingham Conservatoire's website

About Birmingham

Birmingham is one of the largest of England's core cities, and is generally considered to be the UK's second city. It is served by Birmingham International Airport, which has flights to Europe, North America, the Middle East and South Asia.
The West Midlands (the area of England which Birmingham is in) has a long history of technology development, from James Watt's steam engine to Frank Whittle and the jet engine. It is now also leading the UK in the area of Free and Open Source software. Birmingham is home to the country's two leading strategic projects; OpenAdvantage, and the National Open Centre. OpenAdvantage provides the region with a Centre of Excellence in Open Source development, technology, and business, helping over a thousand businesses get involved with a wide range of FOSS technologies ranging from Linux and Samba, to LAMP, Ruby on Rails and Asterisk. The NOC, to be launched on 26th February 2007, will provide the UK with a place to coordinate strategic thinking about open source and open standards in the UK.