Re: Barcelona report

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <uraeus linuxrising org>]

On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 09:04 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 14:24 -0400, Tim Ney wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 11:26 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote:
> > > > So this doesn't look like the cheap conference that I originally thought
> > > > it might be. What's changed? What are the costs involved?
> > 
> > On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 09:58 +0200, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:
> > > I wasn't there the second day when I guess this was discussed, cause on the first 
> > > day when I where there I got the clear impression that the basement
> > > rooms where available at no extra cost, so maybe additional rooms in
> > > this sense are rooms in other near by buildings. Guess Tim can clarify.
> > 
> > The rooms in basement are not booked by IGC, so GUADEC will have to pay
> > extra if we use them for hacking space or anything else. Those rooms
> > also do not have any equipment (video beamer, audio) in them.  Depending
> > on what the planning committee decides, the space already booked by IGC
> > may be enough for GUADEC's needs, particularly on the weekend days. 
> 
> Let's try to avoid the massive costs that that could incur. Is there any
> reason to believe that we need these extra rooms?

If we don't use those rooms we will be having GUADEC right in the middle
of 2500 non-guadec people. Of course if we start on Saturday we would
have more days for ourselves without those people so it might not be an
issue.

Christian