¶ Creating a Gather Town Room for an Informal Gathering
As a workshop, social or affinity group or other organizer you may want to create a Gather Town room for either an informal get-together area. If you are interested in creating a poster session using Gather Town visit then visit [Creating a Gather Town Poster Session]. Creating a simple Gather Town space with a single room is easy. There are two ways to implement this: one is to use a predefined "large lounge" Gather Town template and then the system will automatically create the space in Gather Town sometime before the conference; the second way is to create your own Gather Town space on the Gather Town website using Gather Town's mapmaker and then register your space with the conference. Technically you don't even need to register the space with the conference however this means that the space will not use the conferences authorization scheme and this is also the easiest way for the conference to identify the room to Gather Town in order pay for the space and to give the room extra capacity for the size of the conference.
If you would like to create a completely custom GatherTown space see create custom gathertown spaces using MapMaker.
Read more about Gather Town Spaces and Rooms.
¶ Creating a Gather Town Room using the Large Lounge Template
This is the easiest way to set up a Gather Town room. Go to the Add gather town room (neurips.cc, icml.cc, iclr.cc, mlsys.cc, aistats.org).
- Add a Name for the room. The name of the Gather Town Room must be unique for the conference so good practice is to prefix the name with either your workshop initials or some other unique identifying string.
- Select lounge-large in the drop down menu for the Template name field.
- Leave the other fields blank and Click SAVE
That's it. The conference will build the room before the conference.
