justinmclean commented on PR #47:
URL:
https://github.com/apache/comdev-working-groups/pull/47#issuecomment-5008588104
Some ideas for a future iteration (not a blocker):
The cost estimator only ever prices a flight plus a hotel often the most
expensive
way to travel and stay. That over-estimates exactly the budget-conscious,
often-European trips this program wants to fund, and since the Cost
Reasonableness
score compares against that baseline, a thrifty applicant can end up looking
"off".
Cheaper modes it doesn't account for:
Rail — often cheaper or comparable within Europe, and a central-station
arrival also cuts the onward transfer, versus the airport transfer §3 assumes
for everyone.
Short-term rentals (Airbnb/VRBO) — usually (but not allways) cheaper than
a 3-star, and cheaper still than the conference block hotel, which is often
above market. This matters most when several funded people share one
apartment at the same event - which is something the per-application
estimator can't see.
Worth adding air-or-rail and hotel-or-rental options to §1/§2 and the travel
form, scaling the §3 transfer by arrival mode, and adding a "sharing
accommodation?" prompt to the sprint/summit forms.
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