Rooms
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What rooms (and other areas) do we need at the venue?
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Rooms
These don't all need to be distinct rooms, of course, but we need to at least think about them...
Public
- Theatres - as many as there are talk streams; one of them needs to be big enough to hold all the delegates
- ? BoF room - if there's a BoF stream, it needs its own room (maybe a flat-room, with a panel-table at the front rather than a lectern); not applicable if there's a BoF time-slot.
- ? Delegates' lounge - like the foyer in Canberra; preferably with extended hours (or an after-hours lounge elsewhere, probably at the accomodation)
- ? LPI Exam rooms - if we have LPI exams
- Terminal room
Private
- Committee room
- Speakers' (green) room
- ? Gopher hole - if you want to find your gophers, attract them with cookies?
Areas
- help desk - ideally centrally located
- registration - especially on Monday and Wednesday mornings and Sunday and Tuesday afternoons (at other times the help desk will probably do this)
- ? sellers' area - I (Jiri) think at Canberra there were books being sold from a table in the foyer; it was a good foyer, so it could cope, but if we plan to have that again, we need to have somewhere to put it (possibly a room if there'll be several people selling stuff).
The same area might have tables for community groups (LUV, OSV), related conferences, bids for future LCAs, etc.
- This of course raises the question - do we want to have that?
Geometry
Ideally, all the rooms should be in one area, partly so that it's easy to get between them, but mostly so as to facilitate informal networking. The theatre used for the keynotes can be an exception if it's not used for any other talks (as in Adelaide).
- Toilets - need to be taken into account when judging geometry
