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

[Robyn Bergeron]

Do people really leave early on the second day? We're running Saturday
- Monday - would someone really come for one full day and then leave?



On 8/27/10, Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 08/26/2010 08:25 PM, Robyn Bergeron 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.*)
>
> The one pinball machine they have is the one I own? Drat. :P
>
>> 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.
>
> We should doublecheck about veggie options here, just to be thorough. I
> know that the equivalent student area at NC State considered "french
> fries" as appropriate vegetarian fare.
>
>> * 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.
>> * 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?
>
> People leave early on Sunday, so this would be less than ideal, IMHO.
>
> ~spot
>

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