Re: [Debconf-team] sponsored attendees and rail prices
On 19/04/13 11:47, Philipp Hug wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> I don't think it's useful to have such a complicated formula.
> And another thing: DebConf attendees should book their train tickets
> from Europe early and directly to Yverdon and not just to the border,
> as there are huge discounts available:
>
> An example:
> Wien - Yverdon-les-Bains
> one-way EUR 39 'Sparschiene Schweiz'
> vs 143,40 EUR full fare
>
> We need to provide a list of such cheap options on the wiki.
> In this case only the 2x39 EUR should be refunded, unless the fare is
> no longer available.
>
> IMO the formula for travel sponsorship should be: min(cheapest fare
> available, fare booked)
>
I don't think the team will have time to validate every possible offer
or permutation, some of these things even change from day to day and
can't be checked retrospectively
I think it's reasonable to simply trust that most people will look for
the best deal using the type of discount you have described, and for
those remaining cases or those people who do buy a travel pass, then use
the proposed formula to limit the amount of re-imbursement to a fair
proportion of what they actually paid.
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