On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Gunnar Wolf <gw...@gwolf.org> wrote: > No, of course! We currently "opened" two rooms, both of which will > be recorded/streamed. I put all of the BoFs in the second room, as I > was told it's better suited, but it does not mean they are less > important or that they won't have video team.
To clarify on this: The first talk room is a concert hall, with stage, forward-facing seats, etc. https://gallery.debconf.org/v/debconf11/trailer/p1060078.jpg.html The second talk room is a smaller lecture room, with the seats arranged (fixed) in a circle. This seems much better suited to discussions. https://gallery.debconf.org/v/debconf11/trailer/p1060073.jpg.html If we need a formally-scheduled third room, we will have to take over another ground floor room for it -- there is an excellent room upstairs, but this is not accessible to wheelchairs. Of course, groups wanting to hold ad-hoc discussions which happen to only include participants who can go upstairs could use this, but I think we as organisers have to assume that any discussion group will potentially be unable to use this room. https://gallery.debconf.org/v/debconf11/trailer/p1060093.jpg.html Permanently taking over another ground floor room for talks/discussions would, however, cause a trade-off -- it would be preferable to use all the additional space there for hacklabs, to avoid having most hacklab space upstairs and inaccessible to wheelchairs. (In addition, while we wouldn't schedule events there, I imagine a lot of groups might want to meet for informal discussions in the outside seating of the café-bar between the venue and the hotel.) -- Moray _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
