Re: [activities] Trial a new venue?

Jeff Waugh wrote:

> <quote who="Sridhar Dhanapalan">
> 
> > We are considering trialling a new venue for our May meeting. Google
> > Sydney has offered us a meeting area in their new offices at Level 5, 48
> > Pirrama St, Pyrmont.

I have held two Fp-Syd meetings at the new google offices and here
are my impressions.

> Two thoughts / questions:
> 
>  * How large are the meeting areas in their new digs?

There have two rooms with a divider that can make two rooms into
one large room. The first and most easily accessible room is not
much larger than the one at Atlassian. In  some ways Atlassian
may even  be a better fit.
 
>  * How bureaucratic is the entrance process?

Before 6:30pm, its nowhere near as bad as IBM, you can walk right
to the entrance to the Google play room (pool table, guitar hero
etc) and people at that door can be seen from the meeting  room
if the door is open (we had to close it last time due to noise).

After 6:30pm access is actually worse than IBM :-). Late comers
with have to phone (with a mobile) someone inside the meeting
and someone will have to come down and let them in. This is
a major pain.

On another note, the laptop projector setup is awesome.

>    Will everyone have to
>    sign NDAs and not look at the walls (as is usual for Google events)?

Nope, no NDAs.

FP-Syd has a tradition of drinking beer after the meeting. This is
well catered for at Pyrmont. I don't think the food/meal situation
will be quite as easy to fix.

Erik
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