[Python-Belgium] Python Dinner @ FOSDEM

[Nicolas Évrard]

* Hugo Herter  [2018-01-16 16:44 +0100]: 
>Hello Belgian Pythonistas,

Hello Hugo,

>As discussed with Ludovic, I am working on organizing a Python Dinner
>on Saturday evening (Feb. 3rd aka during FOSDEM).
>
>I got an offer from Chez Léon, where we already had a Python dinner,
>as they can host 40 people with ease.
>
>They have two options for the menu: either we pick in advance one of
>their menus for everyone (limited options but interesting prices) or
>everyone is à-la-carte.

When we organized the Tryton Unconference in Liège I was in charge of
the suppers. We were around 35 people three nights in a row so just
like you I selected the places mainly on their capacity to handle a
large number of people.

We were lucky because they usually gave us 5 dishes to choose from in
the menu (4 traditional dishes, 1 with fish, no vegan (but it was not
an issue)). If you can, propose more than 1 dish because there will
always be people that don't eat pork or beef or whatever.

>I would like to offer an option to book the dinner in advance, with a
>chosen menu and a platform such as Eventbrite to book the dinner.  I
>have never done this before, does it look like a smart move ?
>Eventbrite or an alternative ?

For the unconference we used http://ti.to after having used eventbrite
for the previous conferences. We were pretty happy about it because it
integrated smoothly in our website, also eventbrite was linked to
lanyrd but it was a PITA because lanyrd was discontinued and nobody
reacted to our requests.

Moreover, ti.to provides receipts for the people that wish to have
one. And it was also a process that we had to do afterwards so having
ti.to handling it was a very nice feature.

And ti.to is Free for charity events and take only a fee of 1% for
Community/Non-profit events. You might want to check if it suits your
need.

My 2¢,

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