On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 10:37 +0100, Quim Gil wrote: > In order to negotiate prices with Vilanova Park, we need to agree on an > initial group reservation. We will have some flexibility to recalculate > this afterwards but we need a number to start with. > > In order to get this number we could add: > > - Staff members: ¿10? > - Volunteers: ¿15? > - Sponsored participants & speakers: ¿25? > > TOTAL: ¿50? (I'd rather go safer and book reservation for 60, we can > always reorganize/drop)
How many places are available? I'm convinced that a _lot_ of people would like to stay in this place. If I understand the two weeks thing below, then this gives them a chance to stay there too. > This would give us an orientation of the amount of beds/bungalows we > would book as GUADEC committee. Having the Stuttgart numbers would be > good as a reference. > > Then we would give 2 weeks to the participants from the moment we open > the online registration (Devin???) in order to book with us the GNOME > Village accommodation. They would get into our group reservation, > getting the lowest price. 2 weeks is possibly a feasible deadline for > the people that know for sure that will come to GUADEC, hardcore > contributors, advisory board companies and other GNOME stakeholders. 2 > weeks and no more than that because Vilanova Park can't stop for much > time other group reservations being done by travel agencies. > > At the end of these 2 weeks we finish the group reservation and people > looking for accommodation from trat point will need to deal themselves > with Vilanova Park. We will agree with Vilanova Park discounted prices > for GUADEC participants but we won't guarantee availability of bungalows. > > What do you think? We need to agree on this procedure asap. > -- Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
