Re: An update on GNUstep Meetup 2015: Emails, hotels, dates and more

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

> On 8 Sep 2015, at 21:13, Ivan Vučica <ivan@vucica.net> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Welcome to the first update in a while. Here's some important news.
> 
> Confirmation of attendance
> I would like everyone to be able to receive updates, even if they filter out 
> discuss-gnustep@ and do not follow the blog. I will therefore be manually 
> sending a small email to everyone who has expressed interest via Doodle to 
> confirm the email address, in order to avoid any filters people may have set 
> up for GNUstep mailing lists. I will contact even those who have later 
> mentioned there is low chance of them actually managing to attend.

Yes I’m planning on coming.  Almost certainly my wife too (perhaps with 
teenagers) to enjoy visting Dublin.

> I would suggest some solutions:
> - Try to aggressively book multiple people in one room. (I would try to 
> organize this anyway.)
> - Move the meeting to a week after, Oct 31-Nov 1. (I am told this weekend is 
> rather empty, so we may get lower pricing by default, and possibly lower 
> block pricing.)
> 
> In the aforementioned email I will send individually, I plan on asking if the 
> interested person would find the Oct31-Nov1 weekend equally acceptable.

Yes I can manage that weekend too.

Looking forward to it.