Hi THD, I really hope you can find either before either after the wikimania at least a few days chep accomodation, as usually ticktets are cheaper when you stay at leas a week. And of course it would be the easiest to be able to stay in the same room that time, as moving is always asking time yu'd like to spend on other things, such as looking around on taiwan :) Lodewijk 2007/2/6, THD <theodoranian(a)gmail.com>om>:

On 2/10/07, Florence Devouard <anthere(a)anthere.org> wrote: Also some committees, chapters ... In Boston due to heavy schedule Comcom gave up to hold its own meeting, though almost more than half were there. It was a pity indeed. Btw I heard there was a plan of organisational workshop along HackingDays. How does it go along? It vanished? -- KIZU Naoko Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org * habent enim emolumentum in labore suo *

I'm working in the catering industry, so let me give you a "professionnal" point of view, if you want a more precise one I'll need more informations (as how much tourists are heading to Taipei in August :) ) First of all, in order to have block rates you will need to have a good idea on how many nights, for how many personn you will need. The more accurate the estimations are, the easier it is to talk about price. You will have to set before few things as: single or two bedded rooms, including/excluding breakfasts. An other thing is giving a guarantee. Let me explain, on individual reservations it is asked to have CreditCard number/society fax/ Pre paiement to make the booking, sometimes they accept booking without guarantee but with a 6pm deadline (wich would be a problem in our case). For groups bookings they ask for a guarantee, without any gurantee they will, normally, not make the booking. Moreover if you want to talk about having special rates Otherwise having special rates will be harder. But you can propose them something else, than a guarantee, something they could like. Ask for a "block booking". It's slightly different from a group booking. As soon as you have a good estimation about how many night/room you would need, call hotels to talk about the rates and tell them each participant will make his own booking on the block booking. So they will ask individual guarantees to each participant. The only thing with block booking is they will put a deadline, something like 1month or 15days before check-in they won't accept any new reservations on the block booking. I don't speak chinese, but if you want I can call/mail some hotels, and talk rates with them. -- schiste