Re: [Debconf-team] Sarajevo report
* Alexander Schmehl (tolimar@debconf.org) [060704 15:02]:
> Beside stuff like the check in procedure at the arabic culture center, or the
> fact, that we would need to wait for their decision if they would like to
> host us and similar other smaller disadvantages, the main point speaking
> against them would be the distance between student dormitory and the
> culture center.
>
> As said we don't know the exact distance, but it took us 7-8 minute by foot.
> Considering, that we walked a bit faster than the average, it might take others
> up to 12 or even 15 Minutes by foot. Taking into account, that people would
> need to get back to the dorm for lunch, and that we will have the conf during
> an even hotter period of summer (because the dorm isn't available during any
> other period), we will make the same mistake again: Having a Conf, where people
> stay in the hacklab, because the conference rooms are too far away.
This was a problem in Helsinki (and to a lesser extend in
Oaxtepec). Looking at how well the helsinki debconf turned out
this did not have a huge impact on the bottom line.
So we need to put this "split up" danger into perspective: in my
option it would be considerably more dangerous to split up the
evenings then the days. Actually, with streams becoming better i
predict that more and more people will stay in the hacklabs
anyway.
We could come up with a "shuttle" service for the participants
from/to the culture center during the day, so they dont need to
walk in the heat of the day, to take the edge off.
> We thought about some work arounds, like an additional hacklab in the
> culture center,
and serving some lunch in the culture center's cantine
> but I consider that to be a bad idea, since this would
> split the conference even further up.
those workarounds could defuse the "distance" problem pretty
well, imho. regarding the "split" problem see above.
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