Philipp Hug <[email protected]> wrote:

>> choosing rooms by algorithm only is a sure recipe for desaster.
>
>I don't think we should automatically assign rooms.
>It's better if we let the attendees choose their own room according to
>availability.
>

Can we come up with some solution where people pay and then manage their exact 
location/room mates through a wiki page?


>But I'm against doing it manually, because:
>* It's a lot of work to track all the room assignments/change
>requests/... and also tracking who paid/is sponsored/...
>* It's intransparent: Why does person X get a better room than me.
>
>Even if we end up using the system only on the backend to track all
>the room assignments. e.g. which room is avaliable for day X?, has
>person X already paid...
>It's still alot better than a text-based system.
>
>
>I was thinking about the following trick to avoid the usual problems
>with first-come first-serve system.
>We only release a part of the rooms when we open up registration.
>e.g. we open registration for the first X rooms
>then do it again for the next X, n weeks later.
>so attendees will not only have one chance to register their preferred
>room.
>
>Philipp
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