On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 02:33:09PM -0600, Henning Sprang wrote: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 2:19 AM, Richard Darst <r...@zgib.net> wrote: > > b) try to negotiate with hotels to be able to reduce > > costs from things like people not showing up or leaving early (big > > one! maybe booking extra seminole rooms will provide a chance to > > negotiate better terms). > > Sadly, the hotel conditions are pretty hard. Canceling is only > possible 5 days in advance(!) as far as I understood the contracts > that I saw...
Yes, but if you can renegotiate with the promise of more rooms... But, another, perhaps easier to do idea: if people don't show up, see if you can resell those rooms to other people that want a place to stay? I realize this will take a significant amount of work... - Richard -- | Richard Darst - rkd@ - boltzmann: up 1075 days, 20:07 | http://rkd.zgib.net - pgp 0xBD356740 | "Ye shall know the truth and -- the truth shall make you free" _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
