As some of you already know, a possible space has been found for RCC Boston:
Boucoup Loft. We are going to go forward with this unless there are major
objections by the local wiki community or others. The price will be $3,000
for the three days.
We are looking to schedule Recent Changes Camp on a Friday, Saturday and
Sunday in March (ideally 4th - 6th). I will contact Nate Tassinari, her
Bocoup Loft contact, to coordinate a date with him. If you have any requests
about how the space is set up, please let me know so I can address them with
staff of Bocoup Loft.
Bocoup Loft is in Boston's Fort Point neighborhood, 5 minutes from South
Station and 10 minutes from Chinatown. It is a coworking space run by
Bocoup, an open source Javascript company. There are 30 restaurants in the
area. The proximity to South Station means that it's easy to get there via
the Red Line and Commuter Rail. It is also very close to the Institute of
Contemporary Art and the Children's Museum, just to give you an idea in
terms of location.
Features of the space:
-elevator (currently broken, but will be fixed by March)
-seating space that can fit 100 chairs
-other space that can be used for name tags/swag and sessions
-2 kitchens (stove, microwave, fridge)
-2 bathrooms
-Wifi (although we would probably want to supplement it with our own Wifi if
at all possible)
-projection screen
-Conference room we can use that seats 6-8 people
-possible sponsor in company that's right next door
-3,500 square feet of space for us to use
-willingness of the staff at Bocoup to promote our event through their blog
and Twitter feed
This is a space where people work, but the folks at Bocoup will either have
people work somewhere else or put up dividers so the noise won't be an
issue. If other co-working space isn't rented out during the conference, we
can use that too. From talking to Nate, I really get the sense that he's
willing to work with us and I think that's really important.
I was really pleased with the space and think it would be a good fit for
RCC.
Please reply with questions / objections by October 22th, 2010.
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