Reminder: FUDCon Tempe Planning meeting, Wednesday (TODAY!), 12/1/2010, 2000 UTC/3pm EST/12pm PST

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 12:48:04PM -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
> On 12/01/2010 12:25 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 09:15:46AM -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
> >> Please check out https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/report/9 for
> >> today's agenda! We'll be in #fudcon-planning, as always.  If you have
> >> tickets that need to be on the agenda, please add the na-meeting
> >> keyword to the ticket.
> >>
> >> Agenda items, other than the tickets above - I'd like to set a
> >> time/date for an additional subsidy meeting (I feel safe relinquishing
> >> at least 3k right now thanks to Rackspace and Google sponsorships).
> > Jared and I were talking last night, and one of the things I ran by
> > him was that it's probably a good idea to firm up a set of actual
> > itemized costs the team wants Rackspace and/or Google to handle,
> > within their proposed sponsorship costs, and get an explicit agreement
> > from them on how those costs will be handled (which might be just an
> > email +1).
> 
> I'm already working with both of these groups on this. Google is at 2k 
> and Rackspace is at 4k, so I'm going to be having them do payment (for 
> breakfasts/lunch for Google, FUDPub dinner for rackspace) directly to 
> ASU Catering, and then a portion of the Rackspace money will also be 
> paid to Pourmasters.  The only remaining item for FUDPub then will be 
> the actual alcohol itself, which we need to purchase, and I think it 
> would be easiest for us to tackle that purchase ourselves in person with 
> $someone's credit card and pay for that out of our own budget.  
> Rackspace is agreeable to that, and I still need confirmation from 
> Google, but suspect that it will probably be fine. ASU Catering has said 
> this works well also, as did pourmasters.  Once I have the nitty-gritty 
> details settled out (ie: "your money will be purchasing X number of 
> bagels, OJ, and (the detail I am getting now) tax and etc. are X amount" 
> I can synchronize the payment arrangement between parties.

Fantastic, Robyn -- nice work on coordinating the sponsorship details.

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