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

[Claudio Saavedra <csaavedra alumnos utalca cl>]

Quoting 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.

Yes, it's definitively something to take into account. Most of the chitchat I
had last GUADEC with random hackers happened in the parties and during the
lunchtime, when almost everyone was together in the Carpa. This wasn't the case
during dinnertime, as I, being just an undergraduate student (living in Europe
at that time exclusively thanks to an scholarship), couldn't afford to go dinner
to the fancy places many people did.

Of course, it was my responsibility not having saved enough for GUADEC, and am
not complaining of that, but am happy we had the lunch and parties to gather all
together. Please provide us of such instances next GUADEC, too! It's very important!

Claudio

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Claudio Saavedra <csaavedra alumnos utalca cl>

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