Hi On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:58:57 -0600, Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org> wrote: > Giacomo Catenazzi dijo [Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:21:12AM +0100]: > > Anyway, the venue + accommodation are cheap. About food: we have the > > option to cook ourselves (by finding volunteers to cook for many > > people). In this case I think we should divide people: sponsored and > > non-sponsored, not to cook too much or maybe we can use this option > > only for lunch, or only for some days (an outside grill party, ..). > > Humh... If DebConf were to be a weekend activity, or something short > as most conferences, we could entertain this idea. But cooking for 300 > people is not something you can do just as a hobby. Specially if you > want those 300 people to enjoy the food and continue happily > hacking. We could consider cooking ourselves for a daytrip activity, > but I would prefer not to consider it for day-to-day What we were considering was not that Debconf attendees actually cook the food but to hire someone who will be responsible for the cooking (a (semi)-professional cook) and that Debconf attendees would help in the citchen as volunteers. But I'd only consider this option if Le Camp won't give us a significant discount on their food prices. > > - sell more debian.ch stuffs (with a "debconf tax") (see e.g. our > > T-shirt, umbrella, knives). But so debian.ch should take the risk to > > have unsold stuffs, and anyway I would not count for much income. > > Right. I doubt selling even the most expensive items in an individual > basis (the knife?) will yield enough earning to make a significant > dent :( I don't know how much demand for additional knives there is, but if we would have sold the Debian branded knives at their store prices (They were cheaper as if you'd buy them in a store because of the high volume) we would have made a plus of about 7000 €. That's not that bad... > > - debcamp in Zurich or Geneva and using the bunkers for > > accommodation and university for network + rooms (but network and > > video team will have less time to setup stuffs). Or using only few > > building for DebCamp and share the campus with other groups. > > This sounds impossible. An important part of the DebCamp work is > getting the venue ready for DebConf, and it's done as early as > possible to have the latest days as buffer in case of unforseen > problems. DebCamp _has_ to be at the same venue than DebConf. Still sharing the venue in the first week would be possible if we had access to all the main buildings but just not to all the dorms. The small dorm buildings of Le Camp can be rented individually for school class camps and the like. > > > - In emergency we could move debconf to Geneva or Zurich: bunkers + > > university (but venue and bunkers are far). > > Right, please consider this as well for the decision meeting! What > does "far" mean? And being inside a city has many other interesting > advantages. It means like 15 minutes walking distance. But to be honest I don't like to consider this option at this stage because if we are going to have Debconf in Switzerland with accommodation in bunkers then I'd prefer to have it in another country with better accommodation. Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~
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