Re: [Debconf-team] Le Camp Accomodation - Bed selling and professional fee

2013-01-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:07:17PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: It also sounds a bit weird if you want to support the conference but not pay for the costs of your food and accomodation. If you only want to pay part of your costs you can still apply for sponored food and accomodation and

Re: [Debconf-team] Online rooms booking systems

2013-01-23 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mittwoch, 23. Januar 2013, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: So I think that manual allocation will do a better (and fairer) job. [...] To conclude: I don't think automatic means more fair. fully agreed. choosing rooms by algorithm only is a sure recipe for desaster.

Re: [Debconf-team] Le Camp Accomodation - Bed selling and professional fee

2013-01-23 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 23.01.2013 11:14, gregor herrmann wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:17:41 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: I wonder if it would not simplify things if there would be some other status of attendee that is not called professional but simply covers its very own costs. Isn't that non-sponsored, i.e.

Re: [Debconf-team] Online rooms booking systems

2013-01-23 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 23 janvier 2013 11.47:59, Giacomo Catenazzi a écrit : On 23.01.2013 09:01, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: 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

Re: [Debconf-team] Le Camp Accomodation - Bed selling and professional fee

2013-01-23 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
So replying myself, a proposal with real numbers adapting OdyX first draft. Food: - sponsored food - food (40 CHF/day, 320/week) - no organized food (Attention: no restaurant/shop on short walking distance) and for accommodation - sponsored accommodation (big rooms, sleeping bag, free) -

[Debconf-team] hoteldruid testing

2013-01-23 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 23 janvier 2013 09.01:02, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud a écrit : I have now acquired the conviction that having a well-configured hoteldruid will be of great help for the rooms/beds registration, assignment and billing. What I propose now is to let others access my setup for them to

Re: [Debconf-team] Online rooms booking systems

2013-01-23 Thread Philipp Hug
choosing rooms by algorithm only is a sure recipe for desaster. I don't think we should automatically assign rooms. It's better if we let the attendees choose their own room according to availability. But I'm against doing it manually, because: * It's a lot of work to track all the room

Re: [Debconf-team] Online rooms booking systems

2013-01-23 Thread Daniel Pocock
Philipp Hug deb...@hug.cx wrote: choosing rooms by algorithm only is a sure recipe for desaster. I don't think we should automatically assign rooms. It's better if we let the attendees choose their own room according to availability. Can we come up with some solution where people pay and

Re: [Debconf-team] Online rooms booking systems

2013-01-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Daniel Pocock dan...@pocock.com.au writes: Philipp Hug deb...@hug.cx wrote: choosing rooms by algorithm only is a sure recipe for desaster. I don't think we should automatically assign rooms. It's better if we let the attendees choose their own room according to availability. Can we come

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf 13 localteam meeting Sunday 27th January 3pm (localtime)

2013-01-23 Thread Arne Wichmann
begin quotation from debconf-team-requ...@lists.debconf.org (in mailman.502.1358716280.20048.debconf-t...@lists.debconf.org): As discussed on IRC during the last Meeting I propose to have a localteam face to face meeting: Date: Sunday 27th January 2013, 3pm-7pm localtime (CET)

Re: [Debconf-team] Online rooms booking systems

2013-01-23 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 23/01/13 18:17, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Daniel Pocock dan...@pocock.com.au writes: Philipp Hug deb...@hug.cx wrote: choosing rooms by algorithm only is a sure recipe for desaster. I don't think we should automatically assign rooms. It's better if we let the attendees choose their own

Re: [Debconf-team] Le Camp Accomodation - Bed selling and professional fee

2013-01-23 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:07:17PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: By this I mean that if you register as a professional attendee (and pay the fee) you also have to pay for food and accomodation for those days you actually want sleep and/or eat at Le Camp. One should not be able to register as

Re: [Debconf-team] Le Camp Accomodation - Bed selling and professional fee

2013-01-23 Thread Philipp Hug
Hi Philipp, It'll still be just one invoice. Food/Accomodation/Conference. Do you really think this is a problem to get reimbursed? Philipp On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:07:17PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: By this I mean

Re: [Debconf-team] Le Camp Accomodation - Bed selling and professional fee

2013-01-23 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 01/23/2013 08:08 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:07:17PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: By this I mean that if you register as a professional attendee (and pay the fee) you also have to pay for food and accomodation for those days you actually want sleep and/or eat at Le

Re: [Debconf-team] Online rooms booking systems

2013-01-23 Thread Philip Hands
Daniel Pocock dan...@pocock.com.au writes: On 23/01/13 18:17, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Daniel Pocock dan...@pocock.com.au writes: Philipp Hug deb...@hug.cx wrote: choosing rooms by algorithm only is a sure recipe for desaster. I don't think we should automatically assign rooms. It's

[Debconf-team] Suggestion for Professional / Corporate attendance Fee

2013-01-23 Thread Philipp Hug
Hi, I prepared this a while ago, when I was working on the budget, but I didn't send it to the list yet. These are the basic ideas: * Accomodation/Food are paid per night * When accomodation is booked also food must be booked * Total cost of pro and corporate fee should be about the same as in