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On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 08:18:28PM +0000, Dr Adam Trickett wrote:
> On Monday 05 Jan 2009, Damian Brasher wrote:
> > Tim wrote:
> > > Is there not another room available at the Uni, its a big place with lots
> > > of
> > > rooms??
> >
> > There are, I went through this process last November, it's not so easy to
> > find somewhere as easy accessible and the costs are high to cover security
> > if we use rooms other than those we usually do. There really are no other
> > convenient rooms at zero cost to Hants Lug.
>
> That sounds utterly bizarre but seeing as you did the work I'm more than
> willing to believe it. We would be in serious trouble if we didn't have you
> and regular access to that room!
The difference is that those rooms are both easy to access
(i.e. they're accessible from a lobby, and the rest of the building is
locked away from that lobby), and controlled by ECS. Thus, a member of
ECS can book the rooms for their own internal use. It also means that
the ECS facilities manager can OK the use of the rooms with only a
member of staff present to handle the event security.
If you go elsewhere and don't have a member of staff for that
department *and* the relevant departmental facilities manager on
board, then you end up dealing with the University's room-bookings and
conferences people. This costs you a fair chunk of money for the hire
of the room, plus the costs of having security "look after" you
(i.e. unlock and lock the room).
Oh, and if you're not in ECS, you'll have a nearly impossible job
persuading the University's Systems people to let you plug all of
those random machines into their beloved network. As it is, the
systems people in ECS are quite capable of re-plumbing their network
to provide a DMZ port in seminar room 1 -- which is what happened many
moons ago.
Hugo.
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