I just got a call from DIVA, they said they sent an email to debconf-team couple of hours ago and still didn't get any replies. Questions they are asking in this email are urgent so they asked me to send this on their behalf.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear and respected, We comprehend this conference as a mutual project between Debian team and DIVA and we're sending this email in aim to resolve all possible and/or current issues so we could organize DebConf11 the best way we could possibly do. There are changes we would like to let you know about and changes we would like to discuss with you, as we would not like these changes to harm DebConf11 organization in any way. For the needs of this conference we reserved three hotels, Hotel Bosna as main hotel from 17th to 31st and Hotel Vidovic and Hotel Palas from 24th to 31st. Price we managed to negotiate with hotel Bosna is 38€ while Vidovic is 18€ and Palas is 23€. As we reserved Hotel Bosna from 17th we planned to accommodate DebCamp attendees in this hotel and rest of the attendees (DebConf) from 24th to Vidovic and Palas. We didn't expect DebCamp attendees number to be so high and we didn't think that attendees would be arriving everyday, these things have greatly enlarged our expenses. Government of Republika Srpska gave us a guarantee to 150.000€. Please do note that besides paying expenses for accommodation and food for all the attendees that requested the same in this number there is also the cost of Venue (which is incredibly expensive); our own organized transport with buses/shuttles; DayTrip; T-Shirts/bags/printing; use of pools; transport and accommodation for reputable guests from Google and Canonical and as well as the accommodation of whole DIVA team. Members of NGO "DIVA" have done all their work for 2 years now on volunteer principles without any charges and all expenses we had so far to organize it all we covered using our own financial resources. Today we got a list of attendees that require accommodation/food, from very beginning we planned this whole conference using certain statistics and the number of attendees we got today is not congruent with the statistics/number we had, and we would like ask for your advice. Please help us to overcome this problem by either edit list or to help us with some of the financially expenses. Kind regards, President Josic Dzemila NGO DIVA -- Adnan _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
