Re: hotel in London?

On 8 January 2015 at 15:08, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote:
>> Our meeting will
>> be in the one at 123 Buckingham Palace Road, which is indeed very
>> close to Victoria station.
>>
>> I have put everything that I know into a draft meeting page at
>> https://www.w3.org/2013/csvw/wiki/F2F_Agenda_2015-02
>>
>> It is missing some details, most notably a substantive agenda.
>>
>> Ivan, what should we do for a meeting attendance registration page?
>
> Up to us. I mean: there is no formal requirement for any registration on the W3C site; it mostly depends on what Google requires us to do to ensure entrance to the building.

I think the main need is our own, rather than Google's: to know who is
committed to attend, esp. amongst editors, will help us plan our time
and topics.

There are two logistics-related reasons to have a registration form.
Most importantly, the room books (12 ppl and 8 ppl) are on the small
side. If we are going to be over-subscribed I'll have to scrabble
around ASAP to negotiate a bigger room, or say no to people if there
isn't room. Secondarily, having a list of attendee names means I can
pre-register attendees with Google's reception/badge system. That
won't be a huge time saver but is probably worth doing. If it is easy
to have a W3C form for attendees to confirm plans to attend, that
would be great. If not, an attendee list (maybe linking urls for "I'll
be there" emails to this list) in the Wiki would probably be equally
useful.

The biggest hassle is that Google only has two floors in a larger
shared building, and the building has its own reception, badge system
etc. I hope to have a colleague to help with ferrying people up and
down through badged gates and lifts, and will investigate whether
having a pre-prepared list of attendees helps anything.

Regarding hotels, I've added a fairly generic Trip Advisor link to
https://www.w3.org/2013/csvw/wiki/F2F_Agenda_2015-02#Logistics_and_Hotels

Dan

Received on Thursday, 8 January 2015 14:21:30 UTC