Re: [Debconf-team] Edingburgh report
Alexander Schmehl <tolimar@debconf.org> writes:
> Detailed report:
> ================
>
> First proposed venue: Royal college of Physicians (?)
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> That is the venue, we couldn't visit at all. We just could walk arround
> the outside of the building.
>
> This would be the most expensive option; it seems it is not completly
> capable of hanlding disabled persons; some of the local team have qualms
> about that venue ("nice for a wedding, but I'm not sure about a
> DebConf").
What problems have you see?
> Second proposend venue: Edingburgh college of Art (?)
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> This is the location we could visit partly. It is an "L" shaped
> building; a cantina is in the larger part of the "L", hacklabs would be
> in the small part, the area in between has some grassland, which would be
> a nice "chill out place". We couldn't see the conference rooms from
> inside, but pictures show rooms of workable size.
>
> We didn't spoke with anyone there, just saw some rooms, which wouold be
> nice hacklabs. So many questions, like network and extended opening
> hours are still open and would need to be answered by the team.
>
> Till the day we visited it, it was in heavy use for some art thingy, so
> the building itself was dusty and smelled a bit like cast.
What your POV about disabled people? Have you found possible problems
there?
> Third proposed venue: Student union building "tiviot"
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> The thirds proposed venue is "the oldes building of an student union
> ever". As such it is used, but has a special kind of atmosphere.
>
> Conference rooms in all sizes are available, as well as some bars.
> Opening hours are limited, but local team thinks it shouldn't be a
> problem to have them open for us as long as we like.
>
> Building seems to be fit for disabled persons; network would need to be
> done by ourself. Capacity in the cantina is limited; so people couldn't
> eat all at the same time.
Good. Any problems was noted about accesibility?
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