On Tue, 2016-01-26 at 14:02 +0100, Tavmjong Bah wrote:

As most of you already know, our original venue for the Leeds hackfest
fell through. Alex is looking for another venue which will probably not
be free. What would be a reasonable amount to allocate for a venue?
I've already suggested to Alex that a few hundred pounds would seem
reasonable to me for a three day hackfest. What do you all think?

Bummer. I think that'd be reasonable, but I'm not sure it's possible. I think it comes down to the type of options available. At least in the US, if you can't find an educational institution you end up at commercial venues which are much more expensive.

An option that I've used (in the US, not sure how it travels) for just a couple of folks was to reserve a work room in a library. Depends on the library though.

Ted