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

2013-01-24 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 24.01.2013 09:55, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Hi Philipp, Le mercredi, 23 janvier 2013 22.24:43, Philipp Hug a écrit : I prepared this a while ago, when I was working on the budget, but I didn't send it to the list yet. I have now prepared https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/Pricing

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

2013-01-24 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 24 janvier 2013 10.36:33, Giacomo Catenazzi a écrit : On 24.01.2013 09:55, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: I have now prepared https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/Pricing as a tentative summary of the pricing policy for DebConf13. I tried to include all proposals so far, with

Re: [Debconf-team] Online rooms booking systems

2013-01-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:35:05PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: Has anyone that's been responsible for doing the room allocation bit of debconf actually contributed any views to any of these threads yet? That would be good - but also remember that every DebConf is different. This one has a

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

2013-01-24 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-01-23 21:24, Philipp Hug wrote: I prepared this a while ago, when I was working on the budget, but I didn't send it to the list yet. Thank you for working on this. These are the basic ideas: * Accomodation/Food are paid per night * When accomodation is booked also food must be booked

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

2013-01-24 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-01-24 09:36, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: I don't like the category names, and I think we should not give names to that category. Nobody should be labeled according the hosting. For sponsors it is different, the category is a selling point and according category they are shown differently on

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

2013-01-24 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 24.01.2013 17:47, Moray Allan wrote: On 2013-01-23 21:24, Philipp Hug wrote: Food should be fixed: CHF 25 day (lunch + dinner) Does it make sense to split food from accommodation, when Le Camp want food numbers to be approximately the same as accommodation ones, and when there aren't good

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

2013-01-24 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 24.01.2013 17:59, Moray Allan wrote: On 2013-01-24 09:36, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: I think we should add also category for 2 beds, for the couples. Probably, though it's not 100% clear that couples should get higher priority on small rooms than others. (Some others have different

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

2013-01-24 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-01-24 17:04, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: On 24.01.2013 17:47, Moray Allan wrote: Does it make sense to split food from accommodation, when Le Camp want food numbers to be approximately the same as accommodation ones, and when there aren't good other options nearby? The other sense:

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

2013-01-24 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-01-24 17:07, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: On 24.01.2013 17:59, Moray Allan wrote: On 2013-01-24 09:36, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: I think we should add also category for 2 beds, for the couples. Probably, though it's not 100% clear that couples should get higher priority on small rooms

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

2013-01-24 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-01-24 17:29, Moray Allan wrote: But do we want to allow people to choose accommodation without food? It might be sensible to prevent that in the conference management system (and special case it if we find someone with a good reason for it). And remember the good point that attendees

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

2013-01-24 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 24 janvier 2013 18.31:37, Moray Allan a écrit : And remember the good point that attendees whose companies pay (or who claim the cost of DebConf as a business expense against tax themselves) may prefer it if there's a single charge rather than having food split out. Isn't that

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

2013-01-24 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Gaudenz Steinlin gaud...@debian.org writes: Hi 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) Location: Donnerbühlweg 33, Bern (my place close to the main station) Agenda: to be

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

2013-01-24 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-01-24 18:05, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: I think doing the calculation as we are doing now is great to be sure we are doing the right thing. Then if people prefer to have a single conference participation fee, I'm sure we help there. We could imagine publicising various use cases (as

Re: [Debconf-team] Online rooms booking systems

2013-01-24 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Leandro Gómez leo.tel...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Philip Hands p...@hands.com wrote: 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

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

2013-01-24 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

2013-01-24 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 01/23/2013 08:54 PM, Philip Hands wrote: Daniel Pocock dan...@pocock.com.au writes: The only risk is that people have to accept that if they don't organise themselves into a group for a room, they will be allocated to any available bed at random on arrival - but thanks to the stock-level

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

2013-01-24 Thread Philipp Hug
Hi I understand your thinking behind restricting receipts, but I fear it might just cause arguments with people who feel entitled to have them. (In some countries it's a legal requirement to give them when you take money for something.) In Switzerland it would not be required but we need the

Re: [Debconf-team] Online rooms booking systems

2013-01-24 Thread Leandro Gómez
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Gaudenz Steinlin gaud...@debian.orgwrote: Leandro Gómez leo.tel...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Philip Hands p...@hands.com wrote: Daniel Pocock dan...@pocock.com.au writes: On 23/01/13 18:17, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Daniel

Re: [Debconf-team] Online rooms booking systems

2013-01-24 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 01/24/2013 07:31 PM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Leandro Gómez leo.tel...@gmail.com writes: As someone who was involved with the room allocation for dc12 I have to agree with cate. Manual allocation is not perfect, but it'll do a better job than implementing a room registration system, even if