<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-03-11 14:23 GMT+08:00 Siddhesh Poyarekar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com" target="_blank">siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 11 March 2015 at 11:49, Zamir Sun <<a href="mailto:zsun@fedoraproject.org">zsun@fedoraproject.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> This is a great idea, but I also want to raise out one issue, just FYI.<br>
> The pricing of venue and hotels can not be fixed such a long time<br>
> beforehand, at least we have this problem in China. As we started to<br>
> preparing for FUDCon APAC 2014 in Jan. 2013. But the final price of venue<br>
> and hotels comes out in late March of 2014 I thought. So I think all the<br>
> ambassadors should think of this issue when preparing biding materials.<br>
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</span>Yes, in fact for large bookings, a lot of hotels allow you to confirm<br>
well in advance. In any case, there is never a perfect match in<br>
estimates quoted during bidding and the final cost. A bit of<br>
variation is expected based on a lot of variables, including last<br>
minute sponsors or last minute cancellations.<br>
<div class=""><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div>I might already led to misunderstanding of my concern. Sorry for my poor English ;-)<br></div><div>I mean the price for the hotel/venue/others is changing all the time with the inflation of prices of the bidding city. So we should keep in mind that we may need a lot more money that we planned in the bidding draft.<br></div></div><br></div></div>