Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf11-localteam] [DC11] Accommodation
> How did today's meetings go?
Today was immensely productive day.
* I met with president of Hotel Bosna.
* I met with with people from student dormitory, went to see campus
and the rooms/rest of place.
* Went to "Nezavisne Novine" (Independent Newspapers) for interview.
I was there today with DIVA's president.
* I meet with president of Hotel Bosna, talked to him, told him all
our requests. They are able to accommodate 160 people at the times we
asked. From 17 to 24th it's going to be 60 to 80 people, on 24th the
rest of 100-80 would join them. Food, we previously figured out, it
would be best for all of us to eat together. This too will be done in
Hotel Bosnia where *everybody* will be able to eat. They did the same
thing for World Championship couple of years ago, so this won't
represent a problem to them.
Now, regarding prices, they'll send us the prices for food and
accommodation of these 160 people tomorrow or day after tomorrow, he
want's to go over with and do some calculations. Basically, I told him
that we talked to other hotels and that they didn't offer us good
deals and some of them even offered us 10% discounts. Discounts I'm
going for are >=40 % minimum, but 60% is basically what I'm targeting.
Told him that President is behind us with this, and that we would like
to meet in numbers that are good for the Hotel and also good for
DebConf, because Venue is just across the street.
Also to note, that people who would pay for themselves, they could pay
on reception, but the number we could get is ~160. President seem to
be very co-operative, we even exchanged phone numbers and we'll be in
touch. After we get the final prices from them in next couple of days,
if the number doesn't meet the numbers we were hoping for ... well
we'll negotiate more :)
* Went to campus to see the dorms.
Incredible stuff, I didn't take any pictures since I'm actually
planning to have someone from local team in Banja Luka go and take
pictures in next couple of days. But what I saw is absolutely amazing,
campus is great, it looks really great, rooms are also very good. Even
better, the distance of 1.5km ... it's basically walking straight and
then just making a left turn, it's not zig-zag or anything.
Staff and everybody I saw today was highly, they love the idea and we
also exchanged phone numbers and everything else we need. Let me also
note that, I was there in front of Ministry of Science and Technology
and was taken there by ministers assistant. Campus is awesome, it's
not far as I thought it is, if it is for some I was thinking we could
have shuttle leaving to Venue after breakfast.
Breakfast could be held in cafeteria, there's also security and
everything, basically I didn't know we have such nice campus in all of
Bosnia and Herzegovina, really. Number of people they are able to
accommodate at this moment is ~120, this mainly depends on how many
students are going to leave to their hometowns over summer. Because
some of them live there over summer as well.
With those two places combined we have accommodation for ~280 people
at this moment, which for me, gives a clear signal if Penta is
finished by 1st of April we are safe to start the registrations
process.
Again, dorms are absolutely free of charge.
* Went to "Nezavisne Novine" (Independent Newspapers) for interview.
Went to president of "Nezavisne Novine" (Independent Newspapers) to
meets with its president, because I already want to start raising
awareness among people around here, and also about Linux itself. But
disregarding what I want, they actually let me know because they want
to media sponsor/patron for the paper, they are highly interested in
Linux and how it all works, and especially with the fact that it's
free. Either way I think they are second most read newspapers in
Bosnia.
Also gave interview, in which I talked about many things, from what
Linux is, to what DebConf is and all that other stuff, they also
agreed to have ad in their papers about this event.
After all of this, I went to lunch with Minister of Science and Technology.
This is my report of what happened today, I prolly forgot to say most
of it because I just got back home and am dead tired. Next time I'm
going to Banja Luka (possibly next week) is to start acquiring
sponsorships, that is going from company to company.
Roger and out.
Adnan
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Moray Allan <moray@sermisy.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Adnan Hodzic <adnan@foolcontrol.org> wrote:
>> Being slow. I'm going to Banja Luka this Wednesday, I'm planning to
>> meet with hotel owners and hopefully we'll get those prices fixed and
>> lowered to maximum.
>
> How did today's meetings go?
>
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> Moray
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