Hi, On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Andrew Flegg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Andrea Grandi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Sure, many things didn't happen as planned last year, but that's all part >>> of the grassroots ideal. Put some time in, do our best, have a great time >>> that we can all be proud of. >> >> what went wrong? It's just to understand... the summit looked great >> for me, I didn't notice any issue. > > On a more serious note (putting aside's Tim's "coordination > malfunction"), I think when we look for a venue we should find > somewhere capable of scaling better. C-Base was cool (although a > little *too* geeky, even for me ;-)) but the overall location felt > very cramped in terms of seating space and between sessions. > > Now, that could've been alleviated by using the C-Base bar area more > during the day; but that area felt very disconnected during the summit > day. > > Much of this can be put down to the (unexpected) popularity of the > first summit; and there's no guarantee the next one will attract as > many people, but we can assume a similar number approximately, and add > some overhead room when looking for venues. > > With regards to Amsterdam, I was there with IBM a few years ago at an > Extreme Blue event which was held a few miles outside the city in a > large meeting venue. It could be good for a more "conference" feeling > summit (with breakout areas etc.). A bit of poking reveals it was in > an area called Amstelveen: > > http://www.amstelveen.nl/web/show?id=44489&langid=43 > > And the venue was the Amstelveen Theatre: > > > http://www.jlgrealestate.com/images/paginas/4220_Theater%20Uilenstede%20Amstelveen.jpg
This one should be this : http://www.theatergriffioen.nl/ (Inside Virije University campus, I have a friend studying there). Amstelveen is really near to the city center, about 10-15 minutes in a tram/metro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tram_line_5_(Amsterdam) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Metro) Best regards, -- Valério Valério http://www.valeriovalerio.org > > Cheers, > > Andrew > > -- > Andrew Flegg -- mailto:[email protected] | http://www.bleb.org/ > Maemo Community Council member > _______________________________________________ > maemo-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community > _______________________________________________ maemo-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community
