[Fwd: Re: Query on behalf of Kernel Summit]

[Steven Whitehouse]

Hi,

No luck at Trinity I'm afraid. Has anybody tried the contact mentioned
below yet?

Steve.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Anne Rowell <amr48 at cam.ac.uk>
> To: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: Query on behalf of Kernel Summit
> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:44:25 +0100
> 
> Hi
> 
> Thanks for your enquiry.
> 
> Unfortunately Trinitiy would not be in a position to host your summit.  The 
> College doesn't take any external bookings until July - and we are already 
> fully committed for early July 2007.  In any event, I'm afraid that we 
> would not have the sort of room you are looking for.  The only room we have 
> available which accommodates up to 150 is our lecture theatre.
> 
> I am sorry that we aren't able to help, but hope you will be able to find a 
> suitable venue elsewhere.  If you have not already done so you might 
> contact Conference Cambridge, who will email your enquiry to all the other 
> Colleges; if any can help then they will contact you direct.  The contact 
> details are:
> 
> Conference Cambridge
> Downing College
> Cambridge
> CB2 1DQ
> 
> 01223 740578
> 01223 740580
> 
> www.conferencecambridge.com
> confcam at hermes.cam.ac.uk
> 
> Best wishes
> Anne Rowell
> 
> 
> Conference Co-ordinator
> Trinity College
> Cambridge  CB2 1TQ
> 
> tel: 01223 338489
> fax: 01223 506523
> 
> 
> --On 01 August 2006 09:28 +0100 Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho at redhat.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > The annual Linux Kernel Summit is normally held in late June/early July
> > in Ottawa, however next year, as an experiment it will be held elsewhere
> > and Cambridge is one of two possible locations being looked into at the
> > moment. I'm therefore writing to see whether Trinity would have any
> > suitable rooms available and what the likely costs would be so that I
> > can feed that information back to the committee.
> >
> > The requirements would be as follows: a room, seating just over 100
> > people at tables, each with power provided (for laptops) plus
> > (preferably wireless) internet access. A sound system/data projector for
> > the speaker (and possibly some staging so that the speaker is visible to
> > all, depending on how the room is already set up). A standard lecture
> > theatre is probably not the best arrangement for this conference. The
> > conference would probably be either two or three days duration.
> > Accommodation would also be required for a similar number of people.
> >
> > It is likely that the Summit would be held a little later next year, but
> > we would certainly want to keep it within the summer holiday period.
> >
> > We have several ex-Cambridge people amoung the kernel developers, so
> > each of us is inquiring with our old colleges and reporting back,
> >
> > Steve.
> >
> >
> 
>