* Alexander Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060704 15:02]: > Beside stuff like the check in procedure at the arabic culture center, or the > fact, that we would need to wait for their decision if they would like to > host us and similar other smaller disadvantages, the main point speaking > against them would be the distance between student dormitory and the > culture center. > > As said we don't know the exact distance, but it took us 7-8 minute by foot. > Considering, that we walked a bit faster than the average, it might take > others > up to 12 or even 15 Minutes by foot. Taking into account, that people would > need to get back to the dorm for lunch, and that we will have the conf during > an even hotter period of summer (because the dorm isn't available during any > other period), we will make the same mistake again: Having a Conf, where > people > stay in the hacklab, because the conference rooms are too far away.
This was a problem in Helsinki (and to a lesser extend in Oaxtepec). Looking at how well the helsinki debconf turned out this did not have a huge impact on the bottom line. So we need to put this "split up" danger into perspective: in my option it would be considerably more dangerous to split up the evenings then the days. Actually, with streams becoming better i predict that more and more people will stay in the hacklabs anyway. We could come up with a "shuttle" service for the participants from/to the culture center during the day, so they dont need to walk in the heat of the day, to take the edge off. > We thought about some work arounds, like an additional hacklab in the > culture center, and serving some lunch in the culture center's cantine > but I consider that to be a bad idea, since this would > split the conference even further up. those workarounds could defuse the "distance" problem pretty well, imho. regarding the "split" problem see above. _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
