Hi On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:46:04 +0100, Luca Capello <luca@pca.it> wrote: > Hi there! > > On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:39:09 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > The decision meeting is probably comming very soon. As it seems until > > now, the global team does not have many questions. But from the > > discussion so far it is clear, that the cost will be a major decision > > factor. Although the Latvia bid isn't exactly cheap either we are > > clearly more expensive. > > I am still on the opinion that it is *normal* that our bid is more > expensive that the Latvian one, for the simple reason that the cost of > living in Switzerland is one of the highest in the world: > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_cities_for_expatriate_employees> > <http://www.mercer.com/articles/1095320> While I agree that this is "normal" I don't think it matters much. I guess that if there is a cheaper option which is not clearly inferior in other regards, the DebConf team is going to choose the cheaper option. Previous discussions showed that they do care a lot about the costs. > > That being said, it is obvious that reducing the overall prices is a > good thing, but I think we are a bit too late at this point. > > > - We should probably at least ask Le Camp if they in general see the > > possibility to give us some discount (especially on the food). We > > could also discuss options where we don't rent some of the houses for > > debcamp. Luca are you going to do this or would you prefer if someone > > else talked to them? > > I would prefer if someone else would take care of that, first because I > do not share this idea *at this point* of the bid and second because I > am going to travel over the week-end and the next week again I will not > have good connectivity. I would do that, but my French is a bit poor so that I fear I won't be able to communicate this in the right tone. Didier are you up for this? > > I had the chance to talk to some guys organizing the RMLL in Genève this > July and they told me that they have planned to have meals at around 8.- > CHF each in Geneva: this is done hiring people that they know, which is > something we could consider. This obviously means extra work for us, > which should be taken into account. OK, that's the same thing Michael Germini talked about, right? I guess this would add up to about 24.- CHF for the whole day. I added this price to the wiki. > > > Beside these two points we should also work on answer to all the points > > on the Priority List[1]. In addition to the priority list we have to > > prepare: > > > > * A description of the weak points in their own bids. > > * A description of the strong points in other bids. > > What is the rationale behind these? I don't know. These point are from the agenda[1] for the dicision meeting. I guess if the global team expects us to talk about this we'd better prepare for it... ;-) Gaudenz [1] http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/BidProcess#Venue_decision > > Thx, bye, > Gismo / Luca > _______________________________________________ > Debconf13-ch mailing list > Debconf13-ch@lists.debconf.net > http://lists.debconf.net/mailman/listinfo/debconf13-ch > _______________________________________________ > community mailing list > community@lists.debian.ch > https://lists.debian.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~
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