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 >_______________________________________________ >Debconf-team mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
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