Re: [Debconf-team] Online rooms booking systems
Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.com.au> writes:
> Philipp Hug <debian@hug.cx> wrote:
>
>>> choosing rooms by algorithm only is a sure recipe for desaster.
>>
>>I don't think we should automatically assign rooms.
>>It's better if we let the attendees choose their own room according to
>>availability.
>>
>
> Can we come up with some solution where people pay and then manage
> their exact location/room mates through a wiki page?
I don't think that's a good idea because a wiki does not ensure that no
room will be overbooked or else enforce any allocation rules we might
want to set. It will create a lot of chaos I fear.
Gaudenz
>
>
>>But I'm against doing it manually, because:
>>* It's a lot of work to track all the room assignments/change
>>requests/... and also tracking who paid/is sponsored/...
>>* It's intransparent: Why does person X get a better room than me.
>>
>>Even if we end up using the system only on the backend to track all
>>the room assignments. e.g. which room is avaliable for day X?, has
>>person X already paid...
>>It's still alot better than a text-based system.
>>
>>
>>I was thinking about the following trick to avoid the usual problems
>>with first-come first-serve system.
>>We only release a part of the rooms when we open up registration.
>>e.g. we open registration for the first X rooms
>>then do it again for the next X, n weeks later.
>>so attendees will not only have one chance to register their preferred
>>room.
>>
>>Philipp
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