Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> writes: > Hi, > > while looking at https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/Pricing* I noticed a > breakfast costing the fortune of 10 CF/day/person is (still) included in our > calculation. > > IMO we need to skip breakfast as an officially provided DebConf13 item (as we > have done several times before) and provide 3 alternative choices: > > - no food (many people sleep longer, skip breakfast and start the day with > lunch. This happens every year and makes us waste a significant amount of > money if we have to pay for these unused meals) > - you register, pay 10 CHF/day and get breakfast from Le Camp > - buy cereals/müsli/fruit (on our owns) and eat this in the house kitchens > > I know this is less convinient, but given the costs are as they are (and > knowing that a large part will ignore breakfast anyway) I suppose we should > do > this. > > Le Camp doesnt really care for what we spent our money (as long as they get > roughly what we predicted we would spent) so I would rather spent this on > more > beds and more lunch+dinners (thus enabling more people to come) than on > expensive food which is halfly thrown away.
I don't think this is true. Asking for this change now, will cause significant unhappyness on their side at least. And as the contract we signed includes breakfast they can also just reject such a proposal. I'm quite sure that for them skipping breakfast sounds quite unusal. The costs of breakfast are part of their calculation and we can't really guarantee that we will pay the same amount of money to them even if we don't take breakfast. While for some people breakfast is not needed, other participants want to eat breakfast and as their is no nearby restaurant/bar for breakfast they will be unhappy as well. Providing breakfast on our own is also a lot of work as we would have to provide the food, do the dishwashing, the cleaning of the kitchens etc. It's not just to cost of the food. Renegotiating this now is really not something I'm prepared to do. If someone really has the courage to go to Le Camp with that proposal, I won't stay in their way, but don't count on me to do it. Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~ _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
