news 28 Posted May 25, 2009 Hello, We are now starting the reconfirmation period for DebConf9. The reconfirmation period ends on Sunday 7 June. If you don't reconfirm your attendance before the deadline, you won't be counted for food, lodging, t-shirts, proceedings, etc. Also, you won't be eligible for food or lodging sponsorship. If you have registered as a Professional or Corporate attendee, we also ask you to please make the corresponding payment during this period. Due to the difficult financial conditions, we encourage all attendees make a donation towards the costs of DebConf, if possible. See below. Instructions ============ To reconfirm, you need to login into your pentabarf account [1], and tick the "Reconfirm Attendance" box. You also need to fill in the dates that you will be present at the conference. If you haven't already - please also look through all other options and fill in those you missed earlier, or correct the data if your plans have changed. (For our records, please remember to fill out your country.) [1]: https://penta.debconf.org/penta/submission/dc9/person You must have arrival and departure dates filled in, or you won't be counted. Please tell us the times you expect to arrive at *Cáceres*, and when you plan to leave the conference. If you want to arrange group travel to/from the conference, use [2] but please still fill in your final Cáceres arrival times in pentabarf so we know when to expect you, and when to have rooms ready for those staying in the sponsored accommodation. [2]: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Debconf9/Travel/TrainBooking Please, *PLEASE*, do not reconfirm your attendance unless you know for sure that you are coming to DebConf9. If you reconfirm but then don't come, this will be counted against you for the next DebConf's sponsorship decisions. Of course, if you reconfirm and end up not being able to come, cancelling sooner is better than not telling us. If you are waiting to know if you'll be granted travel sponsorship or not, then please wait until you know for sure that you are coming before reconfirming. If the deadline comes and you still don't know because of this, please send us a mail and let us know. Room preferences ================ We have added a new box, called "Room preference" which will allow you to enter whom you would like to share a room with or you would like to be near. Even if you don't have any particular preferences, please state if you smoke/don't smoke, snore/don't snore, etc. Most of the rooms will be for 2-4 people. At present we will only have a very limited number of single rooms that will be available. We will give preference to those with special needs and Corporate/Professional attendees. Please also indicate any preference in this regard in the "Room preference" field. Attendance fee and donations ============================ If you are attending as a Professional or Corporate attendee, or are attending DebCamp without a specific workplan, we ask you to please pay your attendance fee before Sunday 7 June. We also encourage anyone who wants to help make DebConf a success to make a donation towards the costs of the conference. This will be very helpful this year. You can choose to register as a Professional, or pay some amount as a separate donation. You can make payments in EUR (through FFIS) by bank transfer or USD (through SPI) using a credit card [3]. There are also other payment options available. Be sure to select the right category for the payment (attendance fee or donation). [3]: http://debconf9.debconf.org/payments.xhtml The Corporate attendance fee is EUR 1000 per week. The Professional attendance fee is EUR 300 per week. Conversions to USD are given on the payment page. Please contact sponsors ( -at -) debconf.org if you have any questions. If you are coming to DebCamp as an Independent without a specific work plan, then we ask you to please pay for your food and lodging by paying EUR 300 for that week. If you have any doubts regarding how much you need to pay, please mail rooms ( -at -) debconf.org. -- Richard Darst On Behalf of the DebConf Team http://debconf9.debconf.org Share this post Link to post
