FUDCon: Tempe FUDPub options, round 2 (I am an endless pit of ideas!)

[Hiemanshu Sharma]

On 27 August 2010 05:55, Robyn Bergeron <robyn.bergeron at gmail.com> wrote:

> inode0 reminded me today that there is a nice student area with pool
> tables and such that can be rented out.
>
> So, I looked into it *a bit*: From what I can see, Sparky's Den,
> located in the Memorial Union, can be fully rented out for $155 an
> hour (or $195 if we weren't affiliated with a student group).
>
> They have 8 lanes of bowling, 14 billiards tables, 2 table tennis
> tables, foosball, 4 tvs, and an arcade.  (Spot will be pleased to hear
> that he can spend quarters on Simpsons pinball *all night long.*)
>
>
Awesome! Everyone gets what they want!

Now, of course, there are a few catches:
>
> * We have to use University Catering for food. I don't know if this
> includes rules about donated food, donated beverage, approved caterer
> list, or what.
> * Alcohol would require a permit that has to be approved by Campus PD,
> and we would have to have servers. I can't imagine this to be
> incredibly complicated, but who knows.
>

IMO people can take turns to serve, anyone who would like to help can do so.


> * It may only be possible to rent it on Sunday. I've already requested
> information on this.  If this is the case, would we be interested in
> doing FUDPub on Sunday instead of Saturday?
>

Sunday seems like a better option so we dont have to worry too much about
having to wave up really early to make it to the hackfest than having people
turn up early on a sunday.


>
> I've put in an email (as I said) with our contact for booking stuff in
> the MU.  I also asked her for some pointers / info on the other stuff
> (catering, alcohol, you know, the important things, plus the other
> catering questions I had for her anyhow). If she can't answer the
> questions, she can at least point me in the right direction and we can
> see if this is doable within budget.  It might be a decent option from
> the perspective of being probably the right amount of space for all of
> us with plenty to do, being able to have some space for the
> world-famous FPL speech, etc.
>

Awesome, hope it turns out in our favour.!

Regards,

-H
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