[Ambassadors] Announcing the next FUDCon APAC?

[Zamir Sun]

2015-03-11 14:23 GMT+08:00 Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh.poyarekar at gmail.com>
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> On 11 March 2015 at 11:49, Zamir Sun <zsun at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > This is a great idea, but I also want to raise out one issue, just FYI.
> > The pricing of venue and hotels can not be fixed such a long time
> > beforehand, at least we have this problem in China. As we started to
> > preparing for FUDCon APAC 2014 in Jan. 2013. But the final price of venue
> > and hotels comes out in late March of 2014 I thought. So I think all the
> > ambassadors should think of this issue when preparing biding materials.
>
> Yes, in fact for large bookings, a lot of hotels allow you to confirm
> well in advance.  In any case, there is never a perfect match in
> estimates quoted during bidding and the final cost.  A bit of
> variation is expected based on a lot of variables, including last
> minute sponsors or last minute cancellations.
>
> I might already led to misunderstanding of my concern. Sorry for my poor
English ;-)
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.
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