Re: hotel in London?

Hi all, 

As much as I was really looking forward to coming to London, I am
unfortunately not going to be able to attend the face-to-face in February.
Fatherhood has put a damper on my travel aspirations, at least for the
first year or so. 

So, regrets for me.

Cheers, 
Bill

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On 1/8/15, 9:09 AM, "Ivan Herman" <ivan@w3.org> wrote:

>Gregg, other fellow travelers
>
>I have looked at the (beginning of) the hotel list, and filtered by price
>(my hotel limit in the UK is £150) and reviews, and I have stopped after
>finding four:
>
>
>http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g186338-d279512-Reviews-Comfort_
>Inn_Buckingham_Palace_Road-London_England.html
>http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g186338-d279678-Reviews-Melbourn
>e_House_Hotel-London_England.html
>http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g186338-d193153-Reviews-BEST_WES
>TERN_Corona-London_England.html
>http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g186338-d254557-Reviews-Blades_H
>otel-London_England.html
>
>Any preferences among those? Let us try to stay at the same place...
>
>Ivan
>
>> On 08 Jan 2015, at 15:51 , Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> 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_Hotel
>>>s
>>> 
>>> Dan
>> 
>> 
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>Ivan Herman, W3C
>Digital Publishing Activity Lead
>Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/
>mobile: +31-641044153
>ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0782-2704
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