Youch... but of a trek :)
But I should be able to make it to Brighton without too much pain.
Are there any suggested dates?
Tom
On 18 August 2011 23:36, Richard Farmbrough <richard(a)farmbrough.co.uk
<mailto:richard@farmbrough.co.uk>> wrote:
Sounds good! Last time I spent the night in Brighton was
WorldCon, no
sleeping was involved! However that is not a great idea if I am
driving
....
On 18/08/2011 21:53, Lewis Cawte wrote:
Glad to hear your interested :)
I'm speaking with the most likely venue tomorrow, as their
designated
person is in office Mondays and Fridays. The
venue has Wifi,
not sure
about mains outlets, but the lady from the venue
said its used for
hackathon like events a fair bit, so they should have plenty.
Food and drink, I've been asking people, and generally from
what I've
heard, snacks and lunch are provided by the
organisers, and dinner
people go off with their new friends, or by themselves to get
dinner and
drinks...
Presentations - I've heard at past events they've not had the right
balance of presentations to coding/hacking, and that there were too
many. So I'm going to have to work that out, but after I've got the
venue and date confirmed (next week or two), then I'll put out
a call
for speakers and see how many talks we want.
Apparently the
space is
small enough not to require microphones, but if
any speaker
specificly
wants to use one, let me know way in advance!
Venue will be
providing a
projector for us.
Getting there - this venue I'm looking at is a 6 minute walk
(mostly
downhill slightly) from Brighton Station, cars
are ok, as I think
there's a big car park nearby (a few roads away), but don't
hold me to
this!
Accommodation - I'm going to leave that up to people to
arrange, I'll
put a few sites on the page when venue and date
is up, but its
not my
strong point, I live a 30 minute bus ride away,
so its never been
something I've looked at, I know theres some (not so cheap?) hotels
along the seafront, but I'll go in and have a look for other things
if/when I go to checkout the venue in person. I know in past
hackathons
people have arranged group offers for their
attendees, but
thats not
something I personally am going to be able to do,
if someone is
worried
about accommodation, poke me, and feel free to go
scope out a cheap
place where we can book people into where needs be.
Any other questions, comments etc, they are all welcome!
-- Lewis Cawte
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venue for the
Saturday and half of the Sunday, but people are welcome to come for
just the Saturday if they need to get home etc, and for people
travelling down early on the Friday, if there's enough interest I'll
stick up some activity for anyone that doesn't want to be stuck in
their hotel for half a day... after I've finished school, possibly a
tour or something... BBQ on the beach? :P