Le mardi 19 août 2008 à 11:20 -0300, Margarita Manterola a écrit : > I feel that the current policy (whoever registers and reconfirms on > time gets free food and accom) is wrong. It creates a great deal of > uncertainty regarding the budget and the size of the facilities > required for these sponsored attendees.
Of course there will still be an uncertainty about the size of talk rooms etc. needed, but I'd agree that setting a limit on the number of sponsored food/accommodation places is reasonable. (We obviously need to let people know as early as possible if they are being sponsored or not, but even without a planned limit there's a chance we might find we don't have enough money for everyone.) > I think that the "Professional" category worked well this year, and > next year it might work even better, if the professional attendees get > to be in a hotel or so. Yes -- more people will take up this option if there's a bigger difference between it and the 'free' accommodation, and probably also more will take it if they know there's a planned limit on how many people will be sponsored. > In particular, for next year, there are 250 places in one residence > (only 180 with A/C) and 70 places in the other residence (I think that > those are without A/C). So, the cut could be 250 or 320. If http://munin.debconf.org/archive/dc7/skinner.debconf.org-accomodation.html is right, then at DebConf7 we only had about 170 people in sponsored accommodation, out of about 400 attendees. > The > "Professional" attendees should then go to one of the many hotels in > the city of Cáceres (it would be good if the organization would take > care of booking the places and arranging all the stuff with one hotel, > so that all the Professionals are together, in a near by hotel). Yeah -- we hoped to do that last year but didn't manage to get it arranged in time. -- Moray _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
