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

[Sumana Harihareswara]

Good enough for me.  I am personally absolutely fine with people having
to go back to hotels to hack after dinner.  And yes, let's make zero
promises about luggage and laptops being watched.
-Sumana

On 07/07/2012 12:35 AM, James Hare wrote:
> Dupont Circle Hotel lobby, y'all. Even if you're not staying there,
> they have Wi-Fi for days and nice plush furniture. Fifteen minute walk
> from the venue, and some people are even staying there. It's hard to
> give 24 hour access to a space you don't own, but I feel like we tried
> the best as we could with our hotels. (State Plaza, St. Gregory, and
> the Kimpton hotels all have free Wi-Fi; the hostel has Wi-Fi that
> needs some work.)
> 
> James
> 
> On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Gregory Varnum <greg.varnum at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Do we have a solution for folks that may want to code into the wee hours of the night?
>>
>> -Greg
>> ___________
>> Sent from my iPad. Apologies for any typos. A more detailed response may be sent later.
>>
>> 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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