Re: [Debconf-team] Online rooms booking systems
Hi
We discussed the Online booking vs. manual room assignment question
yesterday during our meeting. We tried to look at it from a different
angle and to define what we have to guarantee from the participants
point of view and how this can be achieved with or without an online
booking system.
* People should know at registration time what they would get in each
room category and how much they would have to pay for it.
* People should be able to indicate their minimum category. Maybe an
additional preferred category would be helpful for manual room
assignment.
* We have to make sure no category is ever overbooked. So people should
only be able to request a bed in a category if there is actually a bed
available. At the minimum they have to know this before they book
their tickets.
* People should be able to select their room mates.
We concluded that all these requirements are fullfillable in both ways.
We tried to list some advantages and disadvantages:
Manual room assignment
+ Very flexible
+ Already tried and working (but not for a venue like Le Camp with
different room categories)
- A lot of work
- Errors will happen and people might get angry
Booking system
+ Booking the right room is completely in the participants
responsibility, we don't have to infer from ambigous comments or take
the blame if a room in the desired category is no longer available.
+ Less work for us once set up
- Technical solution not here yet
- Might have bugs and people will get even more angry
= Depending on the exact implementation might be difficult to book a
room with the prefered room mates (privacy concerns).
Gaudenz
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> in the context of using an online "rooms" booking system, here's the result of
> my investigation:
>
> In Debian:
>
> - hoteldruid
> http://www.hoteldruid.com/
> Last-Release: 2012-12-11
>
> Not in Debian:
>
> - MRBS
> http://mrbs.sourceforge.net/
> Last-Release: 2012-10
>
> - GRR
> MRBS old fork
> http://grr.mutualibre.org/
> Last-Release: 2011-05
> - Aigle
> http://aigle.sourceforge.net/
> Does _much_ more than that.
> - GINA
> Successor of Aigle
> http://www.ipm.univ-montp2.fr/ginawiki/tiki-index.php
> - phpScheduleIt
> http://www.php.brickhost.com/
> Last-Release: 2012-06
>
> After looking at all those, I think we should try to adapt hoteldruid to our
> needs; the fact that it is already in Debian is certainly a plus (even if we
> might need to fork it to suit our needs). I will do a rapid intent at
> configuring it with something similar to LeCamp accomodation options as
> discussed and report back.
>
> Cheers
>
> OdyX
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