FUDCon LATAM 2011 Decision

[Sven von Brand Laredo]

On 10/12/2010 02:21 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 01:40:30AM -0300, Sven von Brand Laredo wrote:
>    
>> On 10/12/2010 01:23 AM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>>      
>>> On Monday, October 11, 2010 10:53:04 pm Sven von Brand Laredo wrote:
>>>        
>>>> On 10/11/2010 09:36 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>>>>          
>>>>> On Monday, October 11, 2010 05:03:32 pm Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>            
>>> We really want a single hotel,  What facilities are available for a room for
>>> having hackfests in in the evening?  will the hotel provide this room for free
>>> for us?
>>>
>>>        
>> [...I will check...]
>>      


Ok, I checked with both hotels, we currently plan to use Hotel Gala for
the event as they provide a room for over100 and smaller rooms that
go from 40 to 15 persons, considering a dinner kind of distribution for
the Hackfest and other evening activities.

The rooms that we could use cost each day:
Salón Antúnez and Salón Neruda, capacity of 70 and over a 100 persons:
     $243697 Chilean Pesos about 500 dollars each
Salón Guayasamín and Salón Neruda, capacity of about 40 persons:
     $75630 Chilean Pesos about 140 dollars each
Salón Arrau, capacity of 30 persons:
     $54622 Chilean Pesos about 115 dollars

In the case of the bigger rooms, Salón Antúnez and Salón Neruda,
if we reserve at least 15 rooms they offer one of the rooms as courtesy.
In the case of all the smaller rooms, if we reserve at least 10 rooms they
offer any of those rooms as courtesy.

We plan to invite speakers and key developers from Chile and make them
stay in the hotel, so it is possible to have at least 15 rooms and it is 
very
clear that we will have at least 10 rooms.

The idea is to invite this speakers and key developers to the hotel in order
to be able to make them contributors of the project.

>>> Please pick a single hotel that we can make appropriate agreements with
>>> What internet facilities are available at the hotel? Can we walk from the
>>> hotel to the conference?  I know at FISL we can not and that makes things
>>> harder.
>>>
>>>        
>> The hotels are not at walking distance from the event, but both hotels
>> are next to a bus stop, buses drive by every minute and almost all the
>> buses pass by the university. All the necessary information would be
>> given to the speakers that come from other countries, and we would
>> have a vehicle dedicated to transportation of the speakers.
>>
>> Hotels are 10 minutes from the university by bus.
>>
>>      
> What Dennis is driving at is that he envisions a fudcon where there isn't
> mcuh of any difference between speakers and attendees.  So a hotel,
> transportation system, etc that can accomodate everyone is desirable.
>    

I'm sorry I didn't use the correct words, our own transportation
would focus on the transportation of the ones that need it the
most that stay at the Hotel and come to the event, giving
preference to speakers that are running late or need a lift and
have to present that day and to those that don't speak spanish.

Hotel Gala is next to a bus stop, it is very common to use public
transportation here in Chile, and it is possible to take a bus at any
hour of the day, giving an easy and fast transportation from the
Hotel to the main event in the university. It is also possible to get a
cab from the hotel to the university at the hotel.

The organization would take care of giving all the necessary
information about public transports and about our own
transportation to everyone coming to the event.

In case of attendees coming to the event, we will recommend them
to stay in Hotel Gala to be able to easily organize the Hackfest and
other activities and we would then as a second recommend nearby
hotels.

Sorry for the big email, but there was much information to be given

-- 
Sven von Brand