2005 GUADEC House (non-)announcement

[Daniel Pisano <docpi web de>]

My dear fans and participants of the GUADEC House,

This is an announcement from your friendly host that there will be no 
GUADEC House for the Stuttgart GUADEC in 2005.

The reasons for this are many:

- Low attendance: More than half of the regular participants of the 
GUADEC House are not going to be able to attend GUADEC 6 in Stuttgart 
and thus will not be able to participate in a GUADEC House this year.

- No vacancy: The real estate market in Stuttgart and surroundings is a 
vast, arid desert. Who are we to expect the market to open up just for 
us? With the conventional real estate market locked up, I am not aware 
of any vacation houses available in the region. See the two following 
points for a more detailed explanation.

- Low acceptance and understanding: Except for special tourist areas, 
conventional Southern German landlords (especially, but not only, in the 
federal state where GUADEC 6 is going to be held) are mentally only able 
to handle long-term commitments of at least a few years on end. Anything 
as flimsy as a quick one-week deal cannot happen inside their minds, so 
it cannot happen for us. They are highly inflexible and the concept of 
renting a house or an apartment for that short time is practically 
impossible to get across.

- Acute time shortage preventing miracles: Things are not going too well 
over here, so I cannot put my resources to work on doing magic and 
pulling an apartment deal out of the hat on such a short notice. Sorry. 
There will be better times.

So all I can suggest to the once hopeful prospective guests of the 
GUADEC House is to find accomodation in the Youth Hostel arrangement 
offered by the GUADEC organisation team, or to snatch a bed (bring your 
own blanket or sleeping bag) at CAMP Stuttgart, provided that that 
accomodation opportunity has been organized by now.

Apologies for having let you wait for this long and then meet you with 
negative news,
I really hope to be able to make it up to you next year, in 2006, 
wherever that will be.

   Daniel