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

[Baris Cicek <baris teamforce name tr>]

On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 16:48 +0100, Gil Forcada wrote:
> 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).
Then one volunteer or professional guide can be hired. We can cover
expenses for a professional guide for 15-20 people it's not expensive. 

> > 
> > 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.
Nice idea. Anyone volunteer for creating this wiki page and post
her/announce it? 


> > 
> > 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.

I'll sort it out for Partners and put official offer on guadec.org,
please put your ideas on wiki page about to be created. I think a spouse
deserves a great time for his/her endurance to geeky partner. :) For all
GUADEC participants I have another sightseeing plan on 13rd of July,
which I will be announce on guadec.org as well. I hope it won't be late
before people have their tickets booked.  


> 
> +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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