Hi, Here are some ideas about what questions we need to answer:
1. Should we set an absolute limit on the number of persons in the big and medium rooms or just try to move people to better rooms if available? Impact Yes: If we set an absolute limit, the total number of possible attendees will be limited. Assuming we use 2/3 of the beds of big and medium we'll loose 1/3 of 159 beds, which are 53. So the total number of possible attendees will be reduced from 325 (ignoring camping) to 272. Impact No: Some people might be more unhappy about the standards in the big rooms. 2. General pricing ideas a) Do the self-paying attendees need to cover their full cost? * Covering their full cost would mean paying their room for the whole rental period, as we probably can't rent it to another person and have to pay it anyway. * Should it also include costs from daytrip, formal dinner... or do we assume this is sponsored? * Can we charge less than what we pay for some room categories to fill them better? e.g. trying to sell the dorm really cheap to selfpaying students? * should we differenciate between self-paying and professionals, were self-paying only pay differential costs + some extra? b) Should the goal be maximum profit or to make the distribution of beds fairer? 3. Upgrades a) Should we allow upgrades during reservation? Impact Yes: booking and billing system required because manual processing will be too much work. Clarification needed about which categories can be booked. Impact No: some people may be unhappy b) Should we allow upgrades on-site, if availability permits? Impact Yes: better use of good category beds, less crowded cheap beds. First come, first serve? People who arrive later will be disadvantaged. Impact No: Unused beds in better categories can either be given away for free and cause unhappyness for those who didn't get an upgrade or not used at all which is a waste. c) Upgrade pricing: Should we price the upgrades a bit higher than the difference to base price? (depends on a)) Impact Yes: More money for DebConf and better availability of rooms. Impact No: Some categories might be overbooked 4. Sponsored Accomodation Which categories are used for sponsored accomodation? In general, I think we should reseve the following rooms for sponsored attendees: nordique_medium down to sleeping_bag_big What will you get, when you book sponsored accomodation? Ideas: a) nordique_medium down to sleeping_bag_big, in order of confirmation b) assigned by magic scheme (cate) c) allow attendees to choose. (for a fee?) 5. Pricing proposals for professional/self-paying attendees: a) Simple single/double/other nordique_single: CHF 60 pp / 60 p room nordique_double CHF 40 pp / 80 p room sleeping_bag_double: CHF 35 pp / 70 p room stay_with_sponsored: CHF 30 pp (or maybe even CHF 25) If we fill all the single/doubles we would make around 11k for rooms + 20k for food, which is more or less what we have in the budget + the extra money from the stay_with_sponsored category Note: we need to reserve some of those rooms for attendees with special needs. I'd prefer if those are in the double-category as we do only have 4 singles. # Should it be possible to book a double for 1 person by paying for the full room? (if yes, we need to decide if breakfast is still calculated by person, then) b) extend this down to other categories: nordique_small: CHF ?? pp nordique_medium: CHF ?? pp c) extend even more... Philipp _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
