Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.com.au> writes: > Philipp Hug <deb...@hug.cx> wrote: > >>> 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. >> > > Can we come up with some solution where people pay and then manage > their exact location/room mates through a wiki page?
I don't think that's a good idea because a wiki does not ensure that no room will be overbooked or else enforce any allocation rules we might want to set. It will create a lot of chaos I fear. Gaudenz > > >>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 > _______________________________________________ > Debconf-team mailing list > Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org > http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~ _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
