Re: Barcelona report

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <uraeus linuxrising org>]

On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 15:38 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 14:27 +0200, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 09:04 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 14:24 -0400, Tim Ney wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 11:26 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote:
> > > > > > So this doesn't look like the cheap conference that I originally thought
> > > > > > it might be. What's changed? What are the costs involved?
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 09:58 +0200, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:
> > > > > I wasn't there the second day when I guess this was discussed, cause on the first 
> > > > > day when I where there I got the clear impression that the basement
> > > > > rooms where available at no extra cost, so maybe additional rooms in
> > > > > this sense are rooms in other near by buildings. Guess Tim can clarify.
> > > > 
> > > > The rooms in basement are not booked by IGC, so GUADEC will have to pay
> > > > extra if we use them for hacking space or anything else. Those rooms
> > > > also do not have any equipment (video beamer, audio) in them.
> 
> Do they have networking? In fact, does the whole building have any
> internet connection?

I seem to remember them saying the whole place was covered by wireless
networking.

> >   Depending
> > > > on what the planning committee decides, the space already booked by IGC
> > > > may be enough for GUADEC's needs, particularly on the weekend days. 
> > > 
> > > Let's try to avoid the massive costs that that could incur. Is there any
> > > reason to believe that we need these extra rooms?
> > 
> > If we don't use those rooms we will be having GUADEC right in the middle
> > of 2500 non-guadec people.
> 
> How much in the "middle" would we be? Surely if several rooms are
> devoted to us then we have a fairly well-defined space of our own?
We have well define conference rooms, but no well-defined rooms for anything else than talks.
All social areas seemed to push us into this huge group they way I saw
it.

Christian