Re: [guadec-list] events/guides/etc. for non-participants? (basically, my girlfriend :)

[Gil Forcada <gforcada gnome org>]

El dl 25 de 02 del 2008 a les 14:58 +0100, en/na Dave Neary va escriure:
> Hi Baris,
> 
> Baris Cicek wrote:
> > I wish I could make a rough guess of partners. Then it would be easy to
> > arrange something with a tourism agency exclusive to partners. 
> > 
> > However I'll try to arrange something and put that on the web site.
> > Thanks for the suggestion. 
> 
> I would suggest taking the approach "as little organisation as is
> necessary" - perhaps going through a tourist agency would be over-kill,
> since I suspect that we're talking about somewhere between 5 and 20
> people (going on GUADEC Barcelona as the model).
> 
> It might be sufficient to have a wiki page for "GUADEC Widows" where
> people can sign up, meet up & swap war stories - which gets publicised
> among those signing up. Hubbies (and perhaps the occasional wife) can
> then tell their partner that they're not alone in coming along, point
> their significant other to the wiki page.
> 
> Perhaps the number will be small enough that one local volunteer would
> be enough to show people around, plan a boat trip on the Bosphorus and a
> shopping trip to a bazaar and a tour of Topkapi and Yerebatan Sarayi
> (placenames gleaned from a tourist site ;) )
> 
> If there is a need, then we can start considering spending money on a
> tour guide.
> 
> Perhaps one of these trips could be made an "official" GUADEC tour open
> to all? I wouldn't mind going to a grand bazaar and seeing the caverns
> of Yerebatan.

+1 !

my 0.02 cents

cheers,

> Cheers,
> Dave.
> 
> > On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 18:40 -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
> >> Hey, all-
> >> My significant other will likely be coming for at least a few days of
> >> GUADEC. I was wondering if there were any plans to do something like
> >> the 'partner programme' from LCA?[1] If there are no such plans (which
> >> is understandable- lots of work, uncertain demand), it would be great
> >> if the GUADEC web page had some information about resources or tours
> >> that partners could try to arrange before they arrive.
> >>
> >> Thanks-
> >> Luis
> >>
> >> [1] http://www.linux.org.au/conf/2007/PartnersProgramme.html
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