Hi I'm relaying this for the people woring on organizing the bar at DebConf13. They propose to use reusable cups for selling beverages. The cups would not be personal, if you buy a drink, you give back your old cup and receive a washed one. Cups will be washed by the bar team in a "hotel kitchen" dishwasher. Therefore the bar team estimates that a bit more than 2 cups per attendee are needed. The cups will have a DebConf logo on them and are a good souvenir to take home from DebConf. It's also more ecological to use reusable cups than one way cups and they don't break as easily as glasses. I don't know the regulations at Le Camp, but in some Swiss cities we might even be required to use reusable dishes.
We investigated prices of two different providers [1]. Costs are very similar. Costs: 480€ - 550€, depending on colors, producer and exact quantity Quanity: 700-800 Cup size: 30-40cl The costs for producing the cups are currently not in our budget. So if you also think that having this cup is a good idea, we need to find a way to finance them. There are several options: - As the amount is not very high, we just buy them from the general DebConf budget. We have 10k CHF budgeted for "incidentials". Input from the finance team on this would be appreciated. This is currently my preferred option. - We charge CHF 2 more for each beverage in a cup wich is bought without also giving back one of the cups. If the attendees take their cups home in the end, the costs are mostly covered. This is how this is most often done at public events in Switzerland. - We find a sponsor for the cup (with Logo on the "back"). We discussed this option during the last sponsorship team meeting and the general consensus there was that this is not worth the effort. To be fair to all our sponosors would have to offer this possibility to everyone. For the cups to be produced in time for DebConf we need to order them by 1st July. So please reply in the next days. Gaudenz [1] http://www.ecoverre.com/ and http://www.ecocup.ch -- 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
