On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Paul <middl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I certainly mean no offense to the organizers of the event. I do think it is
> a lot to presume that literally everyone who attends this conferences is
> aware of, and monitoring, this google group. This is the first year that I
> was made aware of it.
> I had not been met with difficulty in making hotel reservations in the past;
> perhaps having to stay at other area hotels is a common occurrence, but I
> had not heard of it. Perhaps that is why people started making reservations
> without having tickets. Still, with all those tickets selling out in under 2
> minutes, I must imagine that there are many people still sitting on
> reservations when they cannot attend the conference. I think it is not
> "wrong" to ask that they cancel these reservations, when they cannot fulfill
> them. Perhaps, the "right" thing to do is not to make reservations at a
> hotel when you do not know if you will be using them, if you are unwilling
> to cancel them?

> I'm really not trying to be a jerk about this, I'm just trying to help all
> the people that are stuck without a place to stay.

> On Monday, November 5, 2012 11:08:37 AM UTC-5, Barbie Bash wrote:

>> Everyone that attends code mash is aware of this group.  Therefore
>> everyone would receive the same notification when rooms become available.
>> Asking people to cancel their reservations to throw them back in the general
>> pool is wrong as is telling the event organizers how to run an event that
>> they have done one heck of a job at all these years.  Just saying.

>> On Nov 5, 2012, at 9:19 AM, Paul <midd...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> > Please, if you reserved but never got a CodeMash ticket, cancel your
>> > hotel reservations.

>> > Many of us who bought tickets are unable to get reservations, especially
>> > for Thursday night, as the hotel is completely booked. I know that there is
>> > a $25 cancellation fee, but that is the appropriate price to pay for making
>> > reservations before tickets went on sale.

>> > I ask you to do the right thing, and remove the complication of trying
>> > to transfer rooms only to people "in the know" enough to find this group.

>> > To the conference organizers, I think it may be necessary to require
>> > proof of conference attendance when people check in, in order to receive the
>> > conference-rate at the hotel. I fear that there may be a significant number
>> > of people choosing to take advantage of the significantly discounted rates
>> > in order to just make a vacation for themselves, after not getting a ticket
>> > to the conference. I hope that is not the case, of course, but with the
>> > total lack of availability, I'm forced to wonder.

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