Notes/thoughts from yesterday's site visits

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Hi all,

Yesterday members of the organising team did a bunch of site visits. 
Javier, Lene, Sam and I went to some potential venues for social 
events. I also went to the conference and unconference venues.

I've added some notes and photos to the wiki, with the details of what 
we found out:

 * https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2017/SocialEvents
 * https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2017/Unconference

I also have some more personal thoughts about the venues that I wanted 
to share before I forget them!

Main venue

This is really fantastic; possibly the best GUADEC venue I've ever 
seen. Odd thoughts:

 * There's a water fountain; which raises the possibility of 
selling/giving away branded water bottles for people to fill
 * If they'll let us put them in, there's space for ping pong or table 
football. Having some games around could be fun!
 * It might be nice to have picnic blankets, deck chairs or bean bags 
on the lawn in front of the venue.
 * We ought to find out where we can hang banners, both inside and 
outside.
 * I didn't see any notice boards, so we ought to find out if they have 
any mobile ones we can use. There are a bunch of things we might want 
to put on them.
 * I didn't get chance to find out about local places to get coffee 
from; it would be good to have some places to recommend.

The Shed

This will be the venue for the unconference/BoF days, and is a great 
space for the purpose.

One issue we might have is that there aren't that many separate rooms - 
we have a total of three spaces, two of which are quite large. We can 
subdivide them, but noise could be an issue. Likewise, it might be hard 
to devote separate spaces to workshops while the BoFs are going on. We 
should probably decide early on how we want to split up the space, as 
this might determine what kind of activities we can organise.

The people at the shed are well connected with the local digital scene, 
so we ought to reach out to them when we have materials to circulate.

Allan

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