On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 07:44:34AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Benjamin Kerensa <bkerensa@gmail.com> [2014-08-17 07:42 +0200]: > > We could also hire coffee and donuts for about $1500 voodoo could > > serve everyone coffee and donuts from their pink truck in the > > mornings. > I am also in favour of having coffee and morning sweets on site, if > the money is available. I am not in favor of spending money on sweets (either donuts, or the cookies offered by the caterer). As Patty says, there is breakfast available if people want that; I don't see any reason to spend extra money on another breakfast of lesser quality. I am in favor of spending money to have coffee and tea on site, if we get reasonable value for the price. I am not convinced that Aramark's catering offering is that. I expect the quality to be very poor, and we know the price appears to be high (depending, again, on how they measure "per person"). One other possible option I'd like to throw out: there are three coffee shops within a two block radius of the venue.[1] I know that there is a food court / market on the first floor of SMSU; it's possible that they have decent coffee there. Perhaps we could arrange a package deal with one of these shops, to have the first N drinks or N dollars worth of drinks (per day or for the week) be paid for by DebConf. Do those who think we should have a coffee service think this plan is workable? It's not as convenient as having it on the floor with the conference, but I think it would provide better value. And if people are going downstairs and out the building anyway for their coffee, I don't see any reason to prefer Voodoo Donuts over a real coffee shop. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org [1] https://www.google.com/maps/search/coffee+near+1825+SW+Broadway,+portland,+or/@45.5119308,-122.6848648,17z
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