Andreas Schuldei dijo [Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 09:34:21PM +0200]: > Please try to not think black and white. i am fully aware of the > whole contact thing and committing. But if we have a choice we > would be silly not to use it. we could very well tell both venues > that the conf will be in sarajevo *and* that there is an other > possible option for us. it will just help them to offer us a > better package and give us the possibility to consider the > options more carefully. making a decision before we have to does > not really help us anything, and they have those timeframes for a > good reason: at that time they need/can to make alternative > plans and still not loose money if they dont pick us. And even IF > they take an other event at a given time we still can move a week > back or forth without any disadvantage to us or to them. > > It is not like we should/could wait untill may or june... i was > thining more of beginning of the year 2007.
Besides, we can ask both places for a maximum date of committment for the prices they are offering. Or for the possibility of a revokable contract, for a small extra fee - Say, dorms cost X and hotel cost Y. We pay them X/5 and Y/5 as the first payment, and if we cancel, we get back 90% of what we gave. Or something like that. It is important to keep the flexibility until we have a closer look on reality! BTW, I don't know if I told you, but on May 3 I got a call from Club Dorados Oaxtepec, just in front of the main Oaxtepec entrance, offering us to host the conference at their hotel for a slightly smaller fee. Of course, I had to laugh. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
