Re: hotel in London?

> On 08 Jan 2015, at 15:21 , Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

O.k. And I think if we simply set up a list of participants on the wiki page, and we ask people to add themselves, should be enough. Or do we need more than that?

Ivan

> 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


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