Several people are following up on venue leads. See the bottom for more. We can always use more leads!
We're hoping for a weekend in September. Here are the dates we discussed at our first planning meeting:
- September 9-10
- September 30-October 1st
What we need in a venue:
- 4-5 medium-size presentation areas/rooms
- 1-2 mingling/gathering areas
- 2 bathrooms
- Reliable internet access
- Space enough to host 100-150 people
- Easily accessible via public transport
Would be nice to also have:
- Space for 50 or so people to sleep overnight
- 1-2 showers
- Kitchen area
- tables for setting things out
- whiteboards
- projectors
We have leads!
// Format: Lead (who is following up)
NEED TO FIND SOMEONE:
- Eyebeam - (Noel --contact made on best approach. I'll be calling the ED around 4 to mull over space use and associated "costs.")
MAYBE:
- BKLYN Polytechnical (Noel --Contacted and now into further review with dates provided.)
- Google (Amit --talked to Dominic Preuss. No overnight, but the rest looks good for 2nd weekend of Sept)
- Lemurplex (CSt --emailed)
- Old Razorfish offices (Anders --spoke to two contacts, no go so far, have one more to check with)
- Microsoft (Amit--talked to Peter Laudati. No overnight, and internet might be a problem. But the space (near Radio City) is well-equipped and sounds great. MS can help out with food, and if we can figure out a temporary internet solution, may be able to help with that as well.)
PROBABLY NO:
- Schematic - (Amit -- Jane Wells is trying to push this through, but they recently had a robbery and mgmt is skittish.)
NOT GONNA WORK:
- OfficeOps - (OUT - NO RESPONSENoel --GREENLIGHT! check out their site for floorplans. we pretty much have a standing invite to use OfficeOps for what we need. provided two things are considered, 1. a community effort in rebuilding the officeops site into an OSS CMS like Drupal or 2. pay a discounted rate for the building, which has yet to be negotiated. the 4/5 rooms + roof deck can house about 100+ people and one large room will be used for overnight accommodations, housing 30+ people. at this moment, the schedule looks clear for all three nights. caveat - internet can be slow. they have a half of a t1 for residents and office space, we would need to WiFi the building prior to the Camp.)
- 3rd Ward Brooklyn - (Noel, RED LIGHT)
- Meetup (Amit --emailed, no go)
- Gawker (Amit --emailed, their 2000sq ft office is prob too small, but Nick suggested stringing together their office with a few others on the same street.)
- Root.net (OUT - NO RESPONSE
Amit --emailed, checked it out on 7/19. Really nice space, need to find out if overnighting is doable..)
- missing something? add it!