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

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 11:25 -0200, Izabel Valverde wrote:
>  > > 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.

Which is why we're looking into catering. We hope to be able to either
setup a lunch for every participant (ie. no opt-out), or at least
vouchers/special deals.

The venue is in the Birmingham town center, and it's possible to eat
from around �2.50 (about 4 euros), although it won't be as big a meal as
a �5 would be.

Cheers