Hi list, > * Should we combine or split payment for accommodation and food?
Accomodation should only be booked together with food as we pay full pension for everyone. But, you shouldn't forget that there are people staying outside LeCamp who might need food at least for lunch, not sure about dinner though. But this can probably be handled manually. > * Which rooms should we expect to use for people paying a premium? > Which is the best accomodation category that should be free for > sponsored attendees? The current proposal sets this to "Medium > sleeping-bag room" (12-16 bed sleeping bag room) If you really want to charge for room-upgrades you need charge for every room better than sleeping_bag_big or how would you decide who gets a better room for free. > * How should we plan to use the biggest rooms, for now? > One proposal to make the big and medium sleeping-bag rooms more > comfortable is to not completely fill them. There has not been much > discussion about how many people would be OK yet and there is nothing > about this in the current proposal. But I think there is a general > consensus that we don't want to completely fill these rooms. There are > 159 beds in these categories. Only filling the these rooms to 2/3 of > their capacity would reduce to overall amount of available beds by 53. > How should I think as long as LeCamp is not fully booked, we can "upgrade" some people to better rooms during checkin. But we cannot guarantee that the rooms are only filled to X% unless you want to reduce total capacity. > * Should we allow sponsored attendees to (cheaply) buy a better room? > The current proposal also allows sponsored attendees to buy an > accomodation upgrade. Some people on the list thought this should not be > allowed. There are two reasons against upgrades of sponsored attendees: * administrative overhead: we need to keep track of all those different kind of bookings, payments, ... This can be solved using some room booking system, but I'm not sure this will be ready until we open registration. * if upgrades are possible to the highest categories we loose money, as some will only pay upgrade instead of paying the full price. > * Pricing > The current prices are based on the assumption that we don't want to > earn money from selling these beds -- the prices are intended to cover > our costs. Some people thought that the prices for the upper categories > are currently too low. IMO: the prices for the higher categories are too low compared to the lower categories. e.g. Why does a single room cost half the prices of a double room? sleeping_bag_double should IMO be more expensive than nordique_small/nordique_medium and also have a bigger price difference to sleeping_bag_medium. If we keep the possiblity to upgrade the upgrade price should be higher than what it is now. > * Budget considerations I'll do that in a separate mail. Philipp _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
