[EuroPython] Voting proposals

Magnus Lyckå magnus at thinkware.se
Thu Aug 14 17:19:20 EDT 2003


At 08:55 2003-08-14 +0100, Tim Couper wrote:
>My primary concern was related to the availability of a facility with space
>to run 3 tracks each with 100+ people therein and a room for 300-400 people
>together. The original proposal was only for 100+ people and inadequate room
>sizes. I could have missed an update on that though. :-).

There is no 400 seat lecture hall in Chalmers as far as I know. There
are several of about the same size as the CEME auditorium though. If
we turn out to be many more people than this year, I suggest we have
keynotes in Stenhammarsalen, which is just a short downhill walk from
campus. It would be a nice end of the day, leading down to the heart
of the city. This hall costs about EUR 550 for two hours, and it has
390 seats. See http://www.gso.se/img/related_images/10610_large.jpg
I guess it would be the prettiest hall Guido ever held a speech in,
and it's less than 2 euro per visitor if we use it one day. Perhaps
we can affort 3 euro per visitor and use it two days?

As I mentioned before, another alternative would be to link two
halls next door to each other with a video link for the keynotes.

But neither of these options are needed unless we get a significant
increase in visitors compared to this year. That would obviously be
nice, but as far as I understood the number of visitors 2002 and 2003
were fairly stable. Of course, when the conference is in the same
place, some people are bound to think "I've already done that..."
how ever well done it is. With a new location we might attract a lot
of new people, and also get more people return from previous years...

If you look at the map that pops up from
http://www.chalmers.se/HyperText/Kartor.html and select HA1, HA2,
HA3 and HA4 (263+88+104+176 seats) you get a reasonable building,
especially if we could fit in HA1 for the keynotes. That would work
if we get the same amount of visitors as the previous years.

If we are too many for keynotes in HA1, we might as well use HC
(108+104+104+176) and have the keynotes arranged as noted above.
There are many other options as well though. For instance, HB has
room sizes 184+184+184+224 if we need even more seats. Just hover
over the lecture hall list and see the sizes, click to see the
locations on the map.

Actually, if you have a recent version of Apple Quicktime installed
and click on the QTVR button under the map, you will be able to
have a look inside HC4 by clicking on the Q that appears by the
HC halls. Almost like being there! While different in size, all these
lecture halls look similar (at least they did in my days).


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