Holger Levsen dijo [Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 02:53:03PM +0200]: > instead of turning DebConf13 into a travel agency which will have to manage > requests, demands and complaints (even more than we already have to deal with > every year) and giving richer people an opportunity to buy their beds of > choice and forcing poorer people into left-over beds, I suggest a completly > different protocol: > > Do a lottery. announce it as a lottery and do such. > > Maybe we could give everybody 5 tickets (for free if sponsored) and allow > them > to buy more tickets for say, 50 CHF per ticket. (And a ticket could just mean > drawing a random number between 1 and 1000.) > (...) > This is a bit unpredicatble, but it's also fair(er) and rather predictable > that its unpredicatable too. > (...) > I'm sorry to not have come up with a more solid proposal about this yet, but > I > think its a good start and definitly better then making an already quite- > money-centric debconf even more money-centric. We are divided by money all > the > time, and even more, while doing DebConf in Switzerland. The pricing-room- > proposal will widen this gap even more, while this lottery proposal aims at > lessing this gap a little bit at least.
I think this would not be a wise move. If somebody were to have paid a fee to have their minimum-acceptable sleeping standards in, and the lottery puts them on the 30-people-sleepingbag spot, they will probably just regard the money they gave to the lottery as a donation and not attend. If, OTOH, another person is fine with sleeping on a tent but gets sent to a nice single bed room, this person might be just very very very glad with luck, and not feel any obligation to trade spaces with that other unfortunate soul. Lottery says I can sleep like a king, and like a king I shall sleep. _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
