<div dir="ltr">I'll second David's comments, and second the fact that the Manchester layout seemed to work well. The facility in Manchester provided a couple secondary rooms plus a few much smaller rooms which I think generally worked well. Having a tertiary area for meals/"networking" type engagements should also be considered, that's effectively the 3rd breakout room.<div><br></div><div>But that still points to a max of < 300 people. Otherwise you need more/larger breakouts.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 2:29 PM, David Medberry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:openstack@medberry.net" target="_blank">openstack@medberry.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 2:12 AM, Matt Jarvis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matt.jarvis@datacentred.co.uk" target="_blank">matt.jarvis@datacentred.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div></div><div><br></div><div>The general consensus in the discussions we've had, and from the Austin summit sessions and the Manchester feedback session, is that between 150-200 attendees should be the maximum size. </div><div></div></blockquote></div><br></span>Two comments, points</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">1) The last day of the Austin summit, ops had their own room. It was very poorly organized and had about 40ish seats and another 10-20 people on the floor. Even with just 40ish before it got SROd, it was difficult (again, primarily because of the layout) to keep to one conversation and have everyone interested participate. That said, I think the layouts we've had for the Mid-Cycles I've been to are more amenable to discussion with kind of podium and audience layout.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">2) I think with that podium/audience layout 200 is doable 300 is probably max. We'll still need quite a few 2ary rooms of at least 20 people size to make progress in breakouts.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">So, I'm 300ish max.</div></div>
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