Conference info...

[Steven Whitehouse]

Hi,

On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 21:32 +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 09:08:46AM +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> > Trinity we can more or less rule out I think. They only have one lecture
> > theatre large enough for us (takes 150 people) which is very nice, but
> > its not the "groups of people at tables" layout that I understand is the
> > preferred choice. 
> 
> I was there earlier this year - definitely not suitable in my opinion, even
> lecture theatre style - too many seats squashed in too close together.
> Too many people would just settle back into the comfortable seats and
> fall asleep...
> 
> > I was rather surprised that the old Kitchen and/or the Hall were not
> > large enough, but I wasn't offered the choice of those, so I presume
> > they were too small. 
> 
> Perhaps because they expect to be using them for serving food?
> 
> Alasdair

The hall, quite possibly. Less likely for the old kitchen as thats only
used for special occasions. Sometime in the summer though when the hall
has been in use for special events, the regular meals were moved to the
old kitchen,

Steve.