A barcamp generally should have at least three rooms and one of them should be enough to hold as many people as you have that are attending. As it tends to be a fairly geeky set of people, you'll need to have sufficient bandwidth for your attendees, including wifi coverage of the building. At the first OggCamp, the wifi routers didn't have sufficient DHCP scope for all the attendees, leading to many disconnections.
Consider also travel arrangements - some people will want to stay nearby, while others will travel from far and wide to get there. Try to bear this in mind - what are the travel links like? What hotel facilities are nearby? Have you considered organising an "All-nighter"? OggCamp is the name of a particular barcamp style event, but you might get UUPC and Linux Outlaws to support you reusing the name. I've known a few people that have organised barcamp events, feel free to drop me a note off-list if you want me to pass your details on to them? All the best, and I hope your event goes really well! -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs LPIC-1 Certified This message was sent from my mobile device. Please excuse any top posting and typos that may occur as a result. On 26 Mar 2010 20:25, "Paul Sutton" <zl...@zleap.net> wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Just wondered what the venue requirements for ogg / bar camp would be as the lighthouse in Paignton may be suitable. http://www.devonmusiccollective.com/ looking at the site it can take about 700 people, I can't see 700 + people turning up to a geeky event really. the venue does NOT sell alcohol as its mainly aimed at young people under 18 but there are plenty of bars nearby if you are that much in need of a drink, if something like this is possible it would be really cool to bring something like this in to Torbay. Just wondered if this venue fits the bill, they are getting an internet cafe set up over the next few weeks running ubuntu, so Mark is in to free software stuff anyway. :) just an idea. Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Ubuntu 10.04 is out soon : Visit www.ubuntu.com for details DCGLUG MEETINGS - Details on www.dcglug.org.uk/ - please click on Group meetings link on right hand side Aged 11 - 19 then dfey may be for you, please goto http://www.dfey.org for more details -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkutGAEACgkQaggq1k2FJq0P2wCfWqAQzWZpjXinKq6TVm/bc275 98sAnAt9BI86E5KIqZ+qrllcQ0XX+W2b =4Shz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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