[maemo-community] Summit hotel room allocation & management

[From: Randall Arnold]

Quim,


I am coming in a day early (Thursday) and was wondering if and how I could reserve the same room (sponsored) I will have for the Summit.  I am willing to pay for that night if need be, I would just like the convenience if possible.

Who would I contact to work that out?

Randy



> ----- Original message ----- 
> From: "Quim Gil" <quim.gil at nokia.com>
> To: "List for community development" <maemo-community at maemo.org>
> Subject: Re: Summit hotel room allocation & management
> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:29:15 +0300
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We are not going underbudget at all and I would be happy saving money
> wherever makes sense.
> 
> Said that, the rooms are booked and I'm happy if they are in good use
> e.g. increasing accommodation-only sponsorship for relevant Maemo
> contributors or people clearly with budget constraints already registered.
> 
> Re-opening the registration is not possible at this point since we have
> reached the limit. Re-opening the sponsorship process for people
> currently registered would be a nightmare and the last thing I want to
> do now. :)
> 
> But if you find a way to handle this among registered participants based
> on the Accommodation wiki page and forum/list discussions I'm all for it.
> 
> 
> --
> Quim Gil
> open source advocate
> Maemo Devices @ Nokia
> 
> ext Sebastian 'CrashandDie' Lauwers wrote:
> > Quim,
> >
> > Thanks for making us aware of this.
> >
> > How would you see sponsoring other people at this point? I can see
> > several options:
> >
> > - Allow people who have already booked their travel and accomodation
> > to cancel their current accomodation (the traveller will have to check
> > and pay for any cancelling fees, not expensable) and share one of the
> > rooms still available.
> >
> > - Allow people who can pay for their travel, but chose not to come
> > because of the accomodation price to get a room.
> >
> > The two options above have the disadvantage of being nightmares to
> > manage. Who will be offered what? Who's willing to accept? Who wants
> > to make compromises in order to save some money?
> >
> > One last option would be to simply cancel the rooms and give Nokia the
> > money leftovers. However, in my short career in corp I've learned you
> > should never go under budget.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > On 29/09/2009, Quim Gil <quim.gil at nokia.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> ext Andrew Flegg wrote:
> >>> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 13:45, Sanjeev (EIPI)
> >>> <mobiletabletsblog at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> Do I add my name to the "Who needs a room?" section as well, like some
> >>>> have done? Or just to the "Shared Room Allocations" section?
> >>> "Shared Room Allocations" is definitive AFAIK. However, anyone who
> >>> puts themselves as "Single/Shared" in the "Who Needs A Room?" may be
> >>> auto-allocated into the list below.
> >> There are many rooms left. Either we sponsor more people only for
> >> accommodation (budget for travel is allocated already) or we un-book
> >> several rooms or a combination or both.
> >>
> >> What should we do? This is urgent since the worst scenario we must avoid
> >> is paying for unused rooms.
> >>
> >> Some of you might be thinking about moving people to the empty rooms so
> >> we have most people using a room alone. The price of the double room is
> >> ok for 2 people but is almost luxury for one alone. I believe Nokia VPs
> >> would be paying less for their **** rooms. :)
> >>
> >> --
> >> Quim Gil
> >> open source advocate
> >> Maemo Devices @ Nokia
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> >
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