Hi Nate,

Unfortunately probably not. The room capacity is 90 with tables or ~150 without tables, but that's provided no other events apply for the same slot and end up sharing the space (apparently dividing walls can up to quarter it).

Assuming we don't share it - usually Akademy two tracks, it would need to be at least divided into two leaving us with two quite small rooms. It also doesn't cover expo space, BoF rooms, ... Plus the time slots are all shorter than Akademy is.

It's basically a potentially super-sized sprint venue but not quite Akademy tier.


Cheers,
Eike

On January 4, 2020 6:06:50 PM GMT+01:00, Nate Graham <nate@kde.org> wrote:
Could this large venue suffice for Akademy?

Nate


On 1/4/20 7:01 AM, Eike Hein wrote:
Dear community,

Happy new year!

Recently, we've gotten approached a few times with offers of venues for
KDE events/sprints. One such case was the MBition office, which resulted
in the recent Frameworks 6 sprint held there. Another is the foss-north
2020 Community Day, which Adriaan sent an email about not too long ago.

In addition to these, we've recently been made aware that DIN e.V. (a
well-established German organization maintaining important industry
norms/standards) have a large venue in central Berlin they're offering
to make available to open source events in three seperate timeframes in
2020, which we think is very compelling.

I've added a new section in the sprint wiki collecting dates and venues
that are "up for grabs":

https://community.kde.org/Sprints#Need_a_sprint_venue.3F_Check_here.21

If you have a need for a sprint this year and don't have a venue yet,
please consider these. If you're interested in a venue that doesn't have
a kde.org contact listed (e.g. for foss-north, Adriaan is already
coordinating our presence there), please open a thread on the community
list to keep everyone in the loop, or if you need additional info or
help with the application.

If you have an amazing venue and want KDE to fill it with life, don't
hesitate to add yourself to the list, either. :-)


Cheers,
Eike


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