Re: [Debconf-team] DC13 cost reduction / additional income idea 2 - food

2012-10-27 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Gaudenz Steinlin dijo [Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:57:06PM +0200]: > *** No/Less sponsored food *** > > Not providing food at all or just some meals (breakfast and/or dinner). > This means that one or two meals per day have to be paid by the > attendees themselves or they just don't eat that meal. Thi

Re: [Debconf-team] DC13 cost reduction / additional income idea 2 - food

2012-10-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2012, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Doing this might reduce the number of attendees, because some might just > not be able to afford paying for food themselves. This in turn would > increase our per attendee costs. Overall we could save as much as about > 100'000.- CHF if

Re: [Debconf-team] DC13 cost reduction / additional income idea 2 - food

2012-10-25 Thread Moray Allan
On 2012-10-25 07:49, Richard Darst wrote: Actually, this would make a lot of sense for breakfast. Considering breakfast is the meal that is most often not included, Right. Previous years established that many attendees have no interest in breakfast, at least at conventional breakfast times,

Re: [Debconf-team] DC13 cost reduction / additional income idea 2 - food

2012-10-24 Thread Richard Darst
Ohh... good points. On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 07:33:25AM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > I just want to emphasize that although I have contributed some comments > on self-cooking, I am not arguing that it is a `magic solution' or that > it is desirable > http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/SelfCook

Re: [Debconf-team] DC13 cost reduction / additional income idea 2 - food

2012-10-24 Thread Daniel Pocock
I just want to emphasize that although I have contributed some comments on self-cooking, I am not arguing that it is a `magic solution' or that it is desirable http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/SelfCooking But I think it belongs in this discussion about food Just to clarify the alternatives, it

[Debconf-team] DC13 cost reduction / additional income idea 2 - food

2012-10-24 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi *** No/Less sponsored food *** Not providing food at all or just some meals (breakfast and/or dinner). This means that one or two meals per day have to be paid by the attendees themselves or they just don't eat that meal. This is easier with the Interlaken proposal as there are restaurants ar