Re: [guadec-list] Speaker Sponsorship - Book Hotel myself?

[Gil Forcada <gforcada gnome org>]

Great news as we arrive at Istanbul in 3 days (whohooo).

Hope we will get all done before starting :)


Everyone, see you there!!

El dl 30 de 06 de 2008 a les 23:29 +0300, en/na Baris Cicek va escriure:
> Hi All; 
> 
> Did you have to send this mail once I started traveling from Ankara to
> Istanbul? :)
> 
> Well yeah, since I've arrived to Istanbul and I'm all for GUADEC after
> now with Serdar, I'll be able to give much more exact answers for
> anyone. 
> 
> Starting with sponsored participants. My first plan is to get all rooms
> left from Sultanahmet Sirkeci but it suddenly get booked out due to
> company registrations. So I needed to find some other hotel and luckily
> we could arrange a similar hotel with help of relations of volunteers
> from Bahcesehir University (luckily father of one of their father was
> CEO of the hotel group there). They promised to arrange necessary rooms
> in such a sort time and to a big group like us. 
> 
> Hotel is OrientExpress Hotel at Sirkeci. It's very close to GoldenHorn
> Sirkeci and also Sultanahmet (just one tramway stop away). 
> 
> Everyone whom got approval for accommodation sponsorship will get an
> e-mail from me Tomorrow (1st of July). If you won't get an e-mail but
> think that you had accommodation sponsorship approved, please contact
> with me as soon as possible. 
> 
> Apart from that, rooms are double. So you need to share rooms with
> people, but rooms are really not very small and having twin beds. (Sorry
> Zeeshan we're not that rich yet). 
> 
> And also, the price of hotel for per person is 30 euros / day for 7
> days. If you can find cheaper place, or already booked, please let me
> know as soon as possible and I'll reimburse that amount for you. 
> 
> Ok now I need to settle in my room. Terribly sorry about late info. 
> 
> Regards,
> Baris Cicek 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 15:19 +0200, Tobias Mueller wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> > 
> > I requested Speaker Sponsorship a while ago and haven't heard anything 
> > yet. Baris told me on IRC that everything will be alright, and I've 
> > asked him to send me kind of a confirmation email with details on how to 
> > proceed. He didn't yet and didn't respond to my mails.
> > 
> > Based on the comments on IRC and the fact, that I didn't receive any 
> > negative answer, I assume that I receive speaker sponsorship. I knew 
> > that I had book the flight myself, but my question is, whether I have to 
> >   book the hotel myself too (and get the refund later on)?
> > Actually I silently assumed, that I don't have to care about the Hotel 
> > if I receive sponsorship, especially because I had to estimate flight 
> > costs and not hotel costs on applying for sponsorship.
> > 
> > If I have to book the Hotel myself and get the refund later on, is it 
> > okay to take any reasonable hotel for the GUADEC time (i.e. not a 5-star 
> > hotel and just from monday till sunday)? Are there any other rules to obey?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> >    Tobi (who liked last years tracking system)
> > 
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