Re: [guadec-list] Guadec Planning Meeting Notes - 20th January 2007

[Izabel Valverde <izabel spet br>]

> > Whenever I have had lunch provided by conferences it's always been a bit
> > rubbish. The choices are usually small and not to everyones taste. The
> > wide range of eateries in the surrounding area should be sufficient and
> > should mean that everyone gets fed to their liking. This also gives
> > people the choice of either grabbing a quick lunch and hacking away or
> > instead taking a relaxed sit-down lunch.
> > 
> this is ok for us europeans, americans and people from other rich
> countries, but my experience is that people from Latin America and India
> (the ones I've been hanging with while at GUADEC's) have no money to go
> with the "rich" hackers for lunch to the places those "rich" hackers go,
> so they end up going on their own, which makes it hard for most of them
> to get to talk to other hackers, since lunch and dinners are when you
> have more chance to meet other people. And that happened in Spain last
> year, which is much much more cheaper than the UK, so in the UK it's
> gonna be impossible for them to even go to 1 lunch/dinner (as some
> Chilean people did in Vilanova last year)

It's a very important point! For Latin Americans the difference become
to high, like today for me 2,76 Reais is 1 Euro or 4,18 Reais is 1
Libra. Only as example a coca-cola costs 1,20 Reais today what it means
0.43 Euros.

Regards,
Izabel