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[WMF-outreach-staff] Wednesday dinner: Should hackathon participants just head to the Google Reception, or instead buy their own dinner?

Gregory Varnum greg.varnum at gmail.com
Sat Jul 7 04:14:26 UTC 2012


Do we have a solution for folks that may want to code into the wee hours of the night?

-Greg
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On Jul 7, 2012, at 12:12 AM, James Hare <james.hare at wikidc.org> wrote:

> Leaving the bags at the venue is a bad idea no matter what time of day
> unless you leave it in a locked room. In general, we only have the
> venue each night until 7 PM. So you can have an early dinner and then
> come back, or you can hack away for several consecutive hours until 7
> and have a late dinner. (Having forayed into coding, I feel like the
> latter is the most ideal option.)
> 
> James
> 
> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 12:11 PM, James Hare <james.hare at wikidc.org> wrote:
>>> That "come back" may be an issue, seeing as we don't have all the
>>> rooms in the evening.
>> Which rooms do we have? Really all we need in the evening is the main
>> room, I would think.
>> 
>> I'm in favor of letting people come back after dinner, but if you're
>> gonna allow that you should make sure there's at least one person
>> staffing the venue, and that it's made clear in advance when that
>> person is gonna kick everyone out and close up. One
>> not-completely-obvious reason why this is important is because people
>> may want to leave their bags at the venue while they go out to dinner.
>> 
>> Roan
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