Facilities for the talks
Will there be a working net connection for the talks (wifi or wired for the presenter). A lot of the stuff I have to demo will work well if I just do it live. If not I'll capture some of it and put it in powerpoint e.t.c. but it would be good to demo the thing working in the real world.
For instance committing to source control and watching our ec2 hudson environment picking that up live and testing it e.t.c.
There should be plenty of
There should be plenty of scope for recharging laptops. There'll be 14 x 6W mains extension leads knocking around, plus other wall sockets :-)
Just as well. My old 17" Vaio
Just as well. My old 17" Vaio dies after about 15 minutes these days!
If at all possible, it's
If at all possible, it's usually a good idea to offer the presenters either a private network or an ethernet cable so that they're not in competition with all of the other devices in the room.
Good idea! I'll see what the
Good idea! I'll see what the BBC can do.
There'll be WiFi throughout
There'll be WiFi throughout all of the rooms that we'll be using, courtesy of the BBC :-)
Ok in that case I will try to
Ok in that case I will try to do the presentation live on EC2 e.t.c.
Also will there be net
Also will there be net connections for attendees?
I expect I'll want to try out plenty of stuff on my laptop during and between sessions, breaks etc.
I'm new to Drupal so I'm wondering whether to pre-load my laptop with plenty of modules or if I have net access at drupalcamp, I'll just download what I need as I need it. Any suggestions?