2012/2/8 Gunnar Wolf <[email protected]> > > > Advantages: > > * Price: It's going to be a lot cheaper than the Crowne Plaza. > > Can you define "a lot" in numbers? :) > > The rooms are going to be at least 50-75% cheaper than Crowne Plaza (and about same cost as El Conquistador and triple rooms at Teodolinda). Around ~$20 per person/day.
The conference rooms costs from $450 to $1000 (each, per day) at Crowne Plaza. At Ticomo the most expensive conference room costs $250 per day. > > Difficulties: > > * The venue is not located at the center of town, as the Crowne Plaza. > > * To leave the venue people would have to walk four hundred meters or > take > > a moto-cab (only during day time) to the pan american highway. There you > > can find a super market, karaoke bars, pizzerias, a drugstore and a few > > restaurants. But, surely, you will not find the variety of places like > > close to Crowne Plaza. > > Not a big deal IMO. As long as we can go to the town if we so want, > even by taking a taxi (which would be a cheap option for most > foreigners). And the hotel is almost inside Managua. > > It's difficult to get a cab there, specially at night (imagine Estelimar). But I guess we could arrange something with some local cab company. > > * Accessibility is a difficult, since the auditoriums are spread out all > > over the place and a lot the terrain requieres quite a lot of steps, but > > the owner of the hotel promised us to build the conditions so that the > > hotel will be completely accessible in July. We probably would have to > work > > hand in hand together with them to assure a successfull work on this > quite > > difficult task. > > This is also fundamental. Please look into the hotel's promises. I am > sure (answering to your other mail, to which I already replied) that > there _will_ be a price increase for this, but if it's still doable in > time, and still reasonably below the CP price, I'm all for it. Of > course, the hotel ends up winning as they will now have a fully > accessible setting! Make sure that somebody with knowledge in this > field can work with them and supervise the work is properly done. > > Yes, we'll make sure to do this. > > * Connectivity: Since it is not in the center of town, we will have to > > check that the needed internet connection is available at this place. > > Fundamental issue to solve. > We have a meeting today to look into this... will update later. > > > * Hotel Ticomo is a pretty big place and providing a wifi network there > is > > going to be more work and requires more cables, routers, etc... > > We don't need to cover wirelessly every last room. Of course, it's > best if we can. But if the place is too big, the priority would be > cover all of the work areas, then the lounges/halls where we'd be > having our food and leisure time, and finally the rooms. Yes, it's > nice to have Internet in the bedroom, but IMO it's the place where > it's least used. > > The working spaces are spread all over the place and it will require more work. Obviously, the natural obstacles won't help much (anybody loves climbing trees?). ;) > > * We will not have same luxury as Crowne Plaza, there are rooms for 3 to > 8 > > persons, sharing same bathroom and in some rooms the bathroom is inside > of > > one room. Maybe some people would even have to sleep on mattresses. The > > hotel is a little bit a youth hostel style (from a comfort view), the air > > conditions are pretty old and beds and rooms are not very new and to get > > all people there we would have to pack up the rooms (and some would have > to > > sleep in double beds). Please have a look at the photos to get en > > impression. > > We have had less luxury. We really don't need CP-style > accomodation. Of course, it's not like all of us are grass-eating > hippies who sleep on just any spot (although some of us are). Please > try to get a list of rooms and facilities. If detailed floorplans are > available, much better! > > I don't know if there are detailed floor plans, but we will ask the owner. Please bear in mind that it's a quite old hotel (+40 years?) and not so well maintained. > > * DebianDay: If we make a Debian Day outside of the center of Managua, we > > would get less people to attend and we will need transportation for > > visitors. > > We could have DebianDay in downtown Managua, in a university or > something like that, as we did in Argentina. That's something that can > be even deferred a bit. > > If we do it outside the main venue we won't be able to stream/record the conferences? Are you suggesting in doing Debian Day before/after DebCamp/DebConf?
_______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
