> > Whenever I have had lunch provided by conferences it's always been a bit > > rubbish. The choices are usually small and not to everyones taste. The > > wide range of eateries in the surrounding area should be sufficient and > > should mean that everyone gets fed to their liking. This also gives > > people the choice of either grabbing a quick lunch and hacking away or > > instead taking a relaxed sit-down lunch. > > > this is ok for us europeans, americans and people from other rich > countries, but my experience is that people from Latin America and India > (the ones I've been hanging with while at GUADEC's) have no money to go > with the "rich" hackers for lunch to the places those "rich" hackers go, > so they end up going on their own, which makes it hard for most of them > to get to talk to other hackers, since lunch and dinners are when you > have more chance to meet other people. And that happened in Spain last > year, which is much much more cheaper than the UK, so in the UK it's > gonna be impossible for them to even go to 1 lunch/dinner (as some > Chilean people did in Vilanova last year)
It's a very important point! For Latin Americans the difference become to high, like today for me 2,76 Reais is 1 Euro or 4,18 Reais is 1 Libra. Only as example a coca-cola costs 1,20 Reais today what it means 0.43 Euros. Regards, Izabel _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
