Quoting Christian PERRIER ([email protected]): > Quoting Holger Levsen ([email protected]): > > > Not shown on the fotos is a another rather big room we can also use, 200 > > chairs and audio(+video) equipment. The only downside is that its 3km away > > from UCA, so we need to organize some busses, which the CCEN has experience > > with and offered to help us. > > Ouch, 3km away, that's a challenge. Will people still easily come if > they're not free to go in and out back to the hacklabs or so? That's > my concern. > > Also, how to organize the fact that participants are supposed to bring > some stuff with them, which the "C&W staff" (made of those people I > can gather in the days before) arrange together? > > The C&W has always been something suppsoed to be informal and closely > related to the "hacklab life" so that people can choose to "just pop > up" for some time, then move, then eventually come back, etc. > > So, my experience with it has early always been "a place not far from > the HL". The only time it's been a different place was DC10, in > another building of the Columbia university. > > So I kind of fear the fact of the location being really a different > place. Are there other options closer to the HL place?
(adding -team) My stance on this would be: If there's nothing convenient close to the evening/night hacklabs place, then go for the Spanish Cultural Center. Convenient for me is: - allows for the Cheese and Wine Team to go there the day before to arrange things beforehand (at least the afternoon before) - independent from the hacklabs - can fit about 2/3 of the Debconf attendees - has enough tables to arrange the stuff (about 5-10) - no need for chairs if the place is not very very big - has a fridge nearby, ideally a kitchen but that's not mandatory - has no problem with evening noise - leaves us the option of cleaning out late (so no closing at midnight or something) or even in the morning after - IS ACCESSIBLE As you see, the most important points are "close to HL, enough space". Those who have been at previous Debconfs know: - DC11 C&W was OK in that regard but the room were too small. Very close to hacklabs, with a small kitchen. Only problem: too small. - DC10 was fine with the room a little bit larger but not accessible. However in a different building 200m away from the main place - DC9 (in the gardens of the place we were at) was perfect, the only drawback being a quite small fridge - DC8, in the hotel bar, was really good, but there were less attendees so size was not a problem - DC7 was a nightmare to organize..improvised place, very smal, nearly not accessible, no fridge, nearly no tables.... _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
