Re: las-gnome Bad news update: venue space

[Adelia Rahim <adeliarahim gmail com>]

Nuritzi, thanks for your effort especially on the venue. It is quite unfortunate that that happened.

It does sound like SLAC is a little isolated, with the clearance requirements too, so it may deter 
last-minute walk-ins. Even if they have a few other pros as you listed, I still feel that we would benefit 
more from postponing the event to next year; we’ll have more time for practically everything — participants’ 
travel planning/sponsorship from Foundation (if applicable), call for talks, venue options, sponsorships (!). 

That said, if we still want to have some sort of event, a hackfest would be more appropriate — informal, 
casual, basically less logistics to figure out in a very short time frame.

> On 22 Aug 2017, at 6:36 AM, Link Dupont <link sub-pop net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2017-08-21 at 22:40 -0700, Nuritzi Sanchez wrote:
> > The not as good:
> > - unavailable on weekends. It is available Weds - Friday the week we want it
> > or else Tuesday - Friday the week of November 13th.
> > - does feel a bit isolated, too bad it's not closer to main campus. As I
> > mentioned before, main campus is a ~5 min bus ride away
> >
> > ... so we could move the event to Weds Nov 1 - 4 and potentially try our luck
> > on the main campus for continued BoFs. There are spaces you can just walk into
> > with whiteboards. Or, we may want to do a weekday event only the week of the
> > 13th. 
> >
> > Thoughts? 
> > ..........................
>
> Given that there is a focus on students and student engagement for this round,
> being unavailable on weekends and not located on the main Stanford campus will
> make it more difficult for students to attend. Was the emphasis on student
> groups the driving force behind *choosing* a university, or was it the other way
> around?
>
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