On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 11:25 -0200, Izabel Valverde wrote: > > > 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.
Which is why we're looking into catering. We hope to be able to either setup a lunch for every participant (ie. no opt-out), or at least vouchers/special deals. The venue is in the Birmingham town center, and it's possible to eat from around £2.50 (about 4 euros), although it won't be as big a meal as a £5 would be. Cheers _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
