[Imc-africa] accommodation -

[John Bwakali]

Hi Fabian and All,
  I trust you are fine and all is well as you prepare to come over. About the old guesthouse, as I mentioned in my previous email, it is now booked for the period of the WSF and the owner is now charging per person and not rental of the entire place. So if we are to use this guesthouse, then we would need to vacate before WSF begins.Other good guesthouses are now charging per person per day and this translates to rather astronomical figures for 40 people. Over the long weekend, we found several places but they are just not big enough. So the search is still on. But is the group in agreement with renting a big furnished house and if it is not available, then renting two furnished houses? I think that an average of about 3 people per room is fine, so two five bedroom houses can be fine....What do you all think about this? Send me your cell phone number Fabian so that we can SMS regularly. Other colleagues can also do the same in case we need to call you for whatever reason.
 My cell is +254-720-792390. 
   
  Cheers,
  John

fabian <fab at in-no.org> wrote:
  Hello everybody, hi John
there seems to be a tendency on the list/chat of people to opt for the 
old guesthouse, even if we can only have it at a higer price. Could you 
let us know whether this is still an option in principle?
It seems noone really wants to settle for the smaler locations. I 
believe myself, that five bedrooms would be too small.
what other large options do we have?
thanks for your effords
best for now
Fabian
Am 22.12.2006 um 08:21 schrieb terna gyuse:

> hi people
>
> responding to John's email on accomodation and transport -
>
> i propose we worry less about being physically close to Kasarani. the 
> IMC convergence is about building and strengthening independent media 
> in Africa, yes?
>
> so we are planning to build a transmitter, teach ourselves 
> radio/print/online media techniques, learn about (and practice) 
> consensus-based organising and (lastly) cover the WSF. when this is 
> all over, our coverage of the Forum is likely to be the least 
> important, the least durable thing we do -
>
> so i suggest that rather than sleeping 8-to-a-room in a small house 
> (ie 40+ people sharing two toilets, one standard-size kitchen), we 
> rent the original guest house (or another one out of range of "WSF 
> inflation") so that we have enough space to set up a temporary 
> community for learning and sharing experiences.
>
> we can arrange with a matatu owner to do a morning run to Kasarani, 
> and return at some suitably late hour - learn to use public transport 
> for any shuttling in between.
>
> i think it's extremely important that the space we rent is the space 
> we need for meetings, workshops, cooking and hanging out - not just 
> space to sleep. we will be squandering this opportunity if we are 
> focused on reporting on the WSF.
>
> so i am strongly against renting a 5 bedroom house. i do think that 
> the sooner some kind of space is rented, the sooner we can plan to use 
> it, whatever its benefits and limitations.
>  
> thanks again for your work, John
> terna
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