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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12th, at the 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