Food at Pycon

[Laura Creighton]

I thought that the food provided at PyCon last year was awful.  Now
I find out it cost us approximately half the budget of PyCon, at
74$ a head.  I think that this is shameful.  But Aahz thinks the
convenience factor, for those people who are willing to eat the
food -- outweighs the cost factor.  It looks as if if is coming in
at 70$ a head this time.  I'd rather have the 70$.  But Aahz doesn't
want to open this discussion unless I can find 10 people who aren't
interested in the lunches.

Can those of you who already know that you aren't going to eat the
lunches if they are the same as last time, drop me a piece of mail?
I've been away on vacation, and my mail backlog is tremendous, so I
don't have time to read c.l.py at the present.

thanks very much,
Laura


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Delivery-Date: Sat Nov  1 21:40:49 2003
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 15:40:47 -0500
From: Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com>
To: Laura Creighton <lac at strakt.com>
Cc: "Pycon-Organizers at Python.Org" <pycon-organizers at python.org>
Subject: Re: Food or not food?

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003, Laura Creighton wrote:
>
> So, they go downstairs to the food centre, just a short elevator ride,
> buy lunch, and eat it upstairs.  People who want to do this, have the
> option.  

That's what I did one sprint day.  It took a lot longer than I would
have wanted, and the things that were most appetizing to me ended up
costing me something like $10.

Tell you what: since this seems to be an issue dear to your heart, why
don't you post to c.l.py or c.l.py.announce and ask?  If you can get at
least ten people who say they don't want to pay for conference-provided
lunches (and who intend to go to PyCon), we can re-open the discussion
here.  Otherwise, I think the convenience factor is too high.

One idea we can definitely do to cut the cost: assume only 75% of people
will eat conference-provided food.
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