<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.38;">The first step in finding an appropriate space for your hackathon is estimating the number of people you will have participating. An incentive for early preregistration will help get people committed to your event and help you plan your space needs.</span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-ba9680ca-65be-876f-aba6-08205f6cf9c6"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The ideal space is somewhere very open with enough room to spread out between teams. Ideally, small breakout conference rooms will be nearby to give teams privacy, because it is, after all, a competition and teams will want to keep secrets. A large presentation room or banquet hall type space with widely separate tables would be ideal in lieu of many small study rooms and an open space such as those found in a library.</span></span>
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