Accommodation issue during FAD Singapore 2015

[Danishka Navin]

Hi Tuan,

This is to inform you that, I was not responsible for accommodation issue
of Prima Yogi and Sirko.

01. We had a deadline for accommodation booking on 23rd of November 2015.
But Prima's traveling was not confirmed at the time we booked accommodation.

02. As Izhar is the one who holding the credit card, he agreed to book
accommodation for those who confimed with their travel.

03. Some how Izhar could not manage the booking due to authorization issue.

see the irc chat in #fedora-fad

-------------------------
<KageSenshi> processing
<hanthana> thanks
<KageSenshi> ugh .. "unable to authorize payment"
<hanthana> eh
<KageSenshi> that includes paypal
* harish has quit (Quit: Leaving)
<hanthana> credit cards should work
<KageSenshi> hanthana, i've been facing trouble to do online transaction
using the card
<KageSenshi> it seems like having some region lock of some sort
<hanthana> KageSenshi, do the accept pay pal?
<KageSenshi> hanthana, i tried paypal just now, rejected
<KageSenshi> both card and paypal rejected
<hanthana> KageSenshi, I can book but not interested in waiting so long to
settle accounts :)
<KageSenshi> hanthana, book and immediately reimburse lor
<hanthana> haha
<hanthana> sure I can
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04. I did updated the wiki for all the people those who got accommodation
booked by myself [1]

05. I sent one last mail (with a link to the ticket I have opned [2])
before I was flying back to Sri Lanka and I clearly mentioned only 7 people
had the accommodation.

06. On 24th November 2015, you have initiated a mail with the subject of
"Tickets for Yogi and Izhar", where you can see there was no such
confirmaton.

07. I wonder why Prima did not check his accommodation status in the wiki
[1] before start flying. May be he so, exited to only travel but not other
things. :)

08. As we did the booking over AirBnB, I could not book accommodation for
someone not confimed his travel. But you (Tuan as one of organizer), Prima
himself could book his accommodation directly though the AirBnB on same
hostel.

09. It was not nice to use Sirko's booking for Prima instead of booking
accommodation for Prima. What if that hostel houseful at the time last
person rich?

So, please do not try to pass the ball on to myside.
Moreover, you suggest to invite David and we stuck with his slow response.

I would like to remind you that under what policy you make invite David?
Because he was not active last few years but you were not happy with Kalpa
(from Sri Lanka).

As the FAMSCO representative for APAC you should have equal interest on all
counties.   You must understand that you are here to help and take care of
all the Ambassador in our regional issues but not just entertain your
friends.

As you are one of the candidate for current election, I wonder how you
gonna make APAC contribution, communication and culture better than before.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Singapore_2015#Planning_Prerequisites
[2] https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/657

Thanks,
-- 
Danishka Navin
http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com
http://twitter.com/danishkanavin
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danishkanavin/

[Truong Anh Tuan]

----- On Dec 5, 2015, at 5:19 PM, Danishka Navin danishka(a)gmail.com wrote:

<snipped>

>  09. It was not nice to use Sirko's booking for Prima instead of
> booking
>  accommodation for Prima. What if that hostel houseful at the time last person
>  rich? 
Never mind, Danishka. When Prima came to the hostel, we booked another bed for
him. That's fine enough, no more complain.

Rgds,
Tuan

[sankarshan]

On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Danishka Navin <danishka(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

[snipped the larger part of the email]

>  As the FAMSCO representative for APAC you should have equal interest
> on all
>  counties.   You must understand that you are here to help and take care of
>  all the Ambassador in our regional issues but not just entertain your
>  friends. 
I'm sorry to state this but I find these form of emails completely
inappropriate for this particular forum. The subject line indicated
that it would probably be an announcement from the FAD organizers
around the specific topic. However, the larger email has been around
explanations to which this list need not have been informed. I'm not
sure of the IRC channel mentioned is logged and has publicly available
logs. If it does not, using personal logs (off one's individual IRC
client) and furnishing them as a form of supporting narrative is not a
proper method of doing this.

In context of the paragraph that I did use for this reply - I'm not
sure how FAmSCo handles complaints like these. But public ad-hominem
attacks are not what the Fedora credo is. What we write, say, and do
defines how we represent the project. This email, in my book, does not
reflect the best of our project. I understand that there may have been
an instance of emotions running high. But in no way should this
fashion of discussion land up on public mailing lists. I really wish
it hadn't been posted.



-- 
sankarshan mukhopadhyay
<http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/>