Re: [Debconf-team] Le Camp Accomodation - Bed selling and professional fee
Le jeudi, 17 janvier 2013 13.33:47, Daniel Pocock a écrit :
> A few other ideas come to mind:
>
> - One single room to be awarded to the sponsorship team as an incentive for
> best fundraiser
>
> - One single room as a reward for the 'runner up' in the Debconf14 contest,
> as an extra incentive to encourage people to bring bids through to the
> final round
>
> - One single room for the person who helps bring Penta into retirement
I think all these three ideas are terribly wrong: we would be using our
"DebConf" privileges to push insider goals: why would "put Penta into
retirement" give a single room but "released Wheezy" not? As I understand
DebConf's history, we have avoided a prioritisation of attendees' accomodation
in the past and I think it is _good_ to not have "DDs maintaining core
packages in 4-star hotels and random contributors in the crappy camping"
(exxagerating the point, of course). That said, we _are_ doing a
prioritisation of attendees when granting travel sponsoring, but it is a
different situation as it's a binary decision: either you get it or not; it's
not a comfort-related decision.
Granted, we should certainly find ways to reward benevolent work but I
definitely think that "you get a better room if you do /that/ [for DebConf]"
is the wrong tool for rewarding work and benevolent involvement.
(I think we [and this is not specific to DebConf-within-Debian] are not very
good at rewarding and/or acknowledging involvement, actions and work, but
that's another topic).
Furthermore, although I acknowledge that there are significant differences
between bed types, I think we should also not put extra emotional weight on
these differences. By sticking to showing the facts as we know them, we will
avoid most (emotional) reactions to these differences. That's also why the
price increase should be mostly proportional to these differences.
> and also, we should consider making sure a private room with bathroom is
> available, on request, and without any prohibitive charges, to anybody
> with a medical condition, injury, disability or pregnancy
I think we should handle that as case-by-case "special requests", be open to
these and avoid any bureaucracy involving defining a set of criterias, etc.
> for those
> coming from a significant distance, a travel partner in any of those
> categories
Again, this would be a very specific case, that can be handled as special-case
by the accomodation (sub-)team.
IMHO, if said travel partner isn't coming as a DebConf attendee, I don't see
why (s)he should get special accomodation facilities (for free).
Cheers,
OdyX
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