Dear pollo, > 1 - From what I understand NCTU is your main venue. I recall seeing > other venue options on your bid a while ago. Do you have any backup > options in case NCTU does not work? We have two backup venus, YZU and NTU. They are both affordable for us. If NCTU doesn't work, we can just contact them for a backup. > 2 - You write that NCTU wants to sponsor both venue and accommodation in > dormitories. How strong is their commitment (do you have any signed > letter from them?) The chairman of the department already wrote us a mail in Chinese which promised to sponsor both venue and accommodation. I've asked him to write it in English and directly send to debconf-team mailing list. I've already received that mail but seems the mailing-list blocks him? Or maybe it is because the chairman doesn't subscribe the mailing-list? > 3 - You plan to let people eat in different restaurants. How do you plan > to manage reimbursement for people who have their food sponsored? We plan to talk to the restaurants inside the campus. To allow us to make "tickets". So after that they can charge us by giving the tickets back to us. Actually there was tickets for students in the campus years ago. What we need to do is just redo that again. > 4 - Having traveled in Asia (mainly mainland China) I have found that > even though I speak and read mandarin well enough to understand and be > understood, eating vegan meals was very hard. Lots of place will say > there is no animal byproducts but there actually are some in their food. In NCTU campus, there is a true vegan restaurants. We will point out that restaurant clearly so people won't eat any animal byproducts. Also, we plan to issue special tickets that can only used for that restaurant. So vegan people will have that special tickets and they can't do anything wrong because regular restaurants won't accept it. > More generally, how do you plan to deal with the sometimes complicated > (gluten-free, vegans, etc.) diets of some of attendees? For gluten-free, we are figuring that out. Most Chinese food are gluten-free. But we need to talk to the restaurants inside the campus to see which one can promise it. And also issue another special tickets for special needs. > 5 - How easy is it in 新竹市 to get by speaking only English? Most of residents in Hsinchu work in high tech companies, so it shall be no problem when speaking only English in Hsinchu. Also we've checked all the public transportation do provide English translations. For example, the bus will show English stops before arriving on its LED banner. > 6 - Since this would be the first DebConf in Asia, how many people do > you think there would be? The other FOSS conferences look quite big and > the largest room at NTCU you list has a 300ppl maximum capacity. Do you > think that will be enough? We expect 350 ppl this year. But for NCTU, we have another backup. If there are too many people, we can have another bigger room for 500 people. Yours Sinerely, Paul
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