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

[Bert Desmet]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Hiemanshu Sharma <
hiemanshu at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
don't forget that some people already leave on sunday, and thus would miss
the social event.  So Saturday seems to be a better option for me :)

>
>
>>
>> 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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