> 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 assignments/change requests/... and also tracking who paid/is sponsored/... * It's intransparent: Why does person X get a better room than me. Even if we end up using the system only on the backend to track all the room assignments. e.g. which room is avaliable for day X?, has person X already paid... It's still alot better than a text-based system. I was thinking about the following trick to avoid the usual problems with first-come first-serve system. We only release a part of the rooms when we open up registration. e.g. we open registration for the first X rooms then do it again for the next X, n weeks later. so attendees will not only have one chance to register their preferred room. Philipp _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
