Steve Langasek dijo [Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 05:49:26PM -0700]: > > > For 200 people @ $20/day for food, $16,000 comes out to 4 days. But that > > > covers only the days talks are running, and we probably need to figure one > > > additional day of food to cover the arrival/departure days, as well as > > > breakfast on the day trip day and some costs (TBD) for food on the day > > > trip. > > > Yes, that's the 4-day estimate from the "Food" tab. I'll change to a > > 7-day estimate instead, just to be on the safe side. Though, with so > > many good cheap food options nearby, will people want to be eating at > > the cafeteria for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day? I guess they > > might if it's free. > > Probably not - we can mine the data from past conferences to get a better > model for what percentage of attendees will be eating the cafeteria food at > any given time. (We'll want this anyway for purposes of giving estimated > headcounts to the cafeteria staff.)
Right. and for this, I would look at similar cities - e.g. I expect the Portland food offer (and university cafeteria quality) to be much closer to New York or Edinburgh more than to most of our other past venues. _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
