Hi, On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Philip Hands <p...@hands.com> wrote: > That being the case, how about if we announce it something like this: > > =-=-=-=- > There is a regular public bus service (~every 2hrs) from Zagreb to > Banya Luka, so this is probably the best place to travel via, for both > train and air travellers. > > If that's not good enough for you, feel free to make your own plans, > but note that others have been looking for alternative routes, and > most have concluded that alternatives are not better (Hint: the useful > trains are slower and less frequent than the busses, and the > alternative airports have significantly worse public transport) > > If you insist on making you own arrangements despite this advice, that > is of course your choice, but you might want to read the wiki pages > [Travel-Arriving] that include the information that's been discovered > by those who have already tried -- please update the wiki if you > succeed in finding a good route, and more importantly, fix the wiki so > that it would have stopped you wasting your time once you fail. > > Regardless of what you decide, please add yourself to the > [arrivals/departures] page -- if you're flying into Zagreb, this will > allow us to determine the busy periods, and lay on extra busses -- if > you're going off-piste and doing something like flying elsewhere and > hiring a car, it will allow others to get in touch with you for a car > share, say. > > Obviously, if you're about to book, check for times that are already > busy, and try to make similar arrangements, since that will ensure > that you're in a cluster that will be large enough to justify a bus. > > If you're uncertain, put a provisional entry in the wiki by recording > the flight/train number as "UNBOOKED" as that will allow all the > undecided to settle on big groups (if you do this, remember to update > things when you actually book -- we'll not plan busses on the strength > of unbooked entries) > =-=-=-=- > > Do you think that would help? > > We should perhaps use something a bit better than that wiki page for > recording the arrival/departure times, since it's going to be chaos at > busy times, and someone's bound to screw up and delete half of it while > trying to sort it into chronological order. > > Cheers, Phil. > -- > |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] http://www.hands.com/ > |-| HANDS.COM Ltd. http://www.uk.debian.org/ > |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND > > _______________________________________________ > Debconf-discuss mailing list > Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org > http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss > >
I like this plan so much, i think we should use it! (Adnan?) I am sorry that i couldn't be more involved in this, and it's a shame (for the local team) that somebody not local managed to do this on their own. Thank you Philip! Velimir _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
