Hi We discussed the Online booking vs. manual room assignment question yesterday during our meeting. We tried to look at it from a different angle and to define what we have to guarantee from the participants point of view and how this can be achieved with or without an online booking system.
* People should know at registration time what they would get in each room category and how much they would have to pay for it. * People should be able to indicate their minimum category. Maybe an additional preferred category would be helpful for manual room assignment. * We have to make sure no category is ever overbooked. So people should only be able to request a bed in a category if there is actually a bed available. At the minimum they have to know this before they book their tickets. * People should be able to select their room mates. We concluded that all these requirements are fullfillable in both ways. We tried to list some advantages and disadvantages: Manual room assignment + Very flexible + Already tried and working (but not for a venue like Le Camp with different room categories) - A lot of work - Errors will happen and people might get angry Booking system + Booking the right room is completely in the participants responsibility, we don't have to infer from ambigous comments or take the blame if a room in the desired category is no longer available. + Less work for us once set up - Technical solution not here yet - Might have bugs and people will get even more angry = Depending on the exact implementation might be difficult to book a room with the prefered room mates (privacy concerns). Gaudenz Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <[email protected]> writes: > Hi all, > > in the context of using an online "rooms" booking system, here's the result > of > my investigation: > > In Debian: > > - hoteldruid > http://www.hoteldruid.com/ > Last-Release: 2012-12-11 > > Not in Debian: > > - MRBS > http://mrbs.sourceforge.net/ > Last-Release: 2012-10 > > - GRR > MRBS old fork > http://grr.mutualibre.org/ > Last-Release: 2011-05 > - Aigle > http://aigle.sourceforge.net/ > Does _much_ more than that. > - GINA > Successor of Aigle > http://www.ipm.univ-montp2.fr/ginawiki/tiki-index.php > - phpScheduleIt > http://www.php.brickhost.com/ > Last-Release: 2012-06 > > After looking at all those, I think we should try to adapt hoteldruid to our > needs; the fact that it is already in Debian is certainly a plus (even if we > might need to fork it to suit our needs). I will do a rapid intent at > configuring it with something similar to LeCamp accomodation options as > discussed and report back. > > Cheers > > OdyX > _______________________________________________ > Debconf-team mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~ _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
