Re: hotel in London?

I have made a reservation at the Blades hotel,

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g186338-d254557-Reviews-Blades_Hotel-London_England.html

When going through bookings.com it signalled that there are only 4 rooms available at the price, so better do it...

Ivan

>> 
>> Any preferences among those? Let us try to stay at the same place...
> 
> The Comfort is the most convenient to the office, which is probably only an issue if the weather is poor. Otherwise, Blades seems close to the Pimlico tube station and looks nice.
> 
> I'm actually coming early, to get ahead on timezone adjustment (and enjoy London a bit), so I'll be booking from Monday leaving Saturday.
> 
> Gregg
> 
>> 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_Hotels
>>>> 
>>>> 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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Ivan Herman, W3C
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Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/
mobile: +31-641044153
ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0782-2704