On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 02:02:21PM +0000, Moray Allan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva > <marcot@debian.org> wrote: > > Unfortunately we could not get the alternative place we were looking for, so > > the prices on the BID page are the best prices we could get. > > If you were chosen for DebConf11, would you be able to find a > different alternative venue? > > As discussed, US$80 per person per night is probably more than we can > pay, unless you find some very generous local sponsorship. If you > were told you could only spend at most US$30 (and preferably less) per > person per night, what would you do? > > -- > Moray > _______________________________________________ > Debconf-team mailing list > Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org > http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team Hello, Moray. I could get some information from people that have organized an event for 1200 people on November 2009 in the venue we want to get, SESC Venda Nova. I've put the information in our bid now, considering it as our main option. That was a last minute change, because it has been hard to negotiate with people from SESC, always postponing sending the costs to us. Here in Brazil, we say the year only starts after Carnaval. That is very much unfortunate. Well, the good news is that prices are much lower than what we had previously. In fact, they are lower than I expected. They are about $20 per person per night. The venue is cheaper too. We have some difficulties though. It's far from downtown, network connectivity must be arranged by us. But I think it's a very good tradeoff, not only because of the price, but because the place is great for us to have a little fun! Pools, courts to play soccer, volleyball, basketball. And I have heard the accomodations are nice too! Well, I hope there's not much trouble doing this update in these last hours. I could only get my hands on this information this morning. Regards, Cascardo.
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