On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Philip Hands <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2012 07:26:55 -0600, Leandro Gómez <[email protected]> > wrote: > ... > > http://whiteboard.debian.net/9403b9.wb > > Regarding the food and sponsored food. > > I note that you're talking about bar-codes etc -- in previous years > we've done something like print a logo (a burger, say) on the badges of > those that have food sponsored -- that way the lunch queue doesn't need > any technology to let people into lunch. > > Yes, we also considered having something printed on the badges to indicate if the person have sponsored food or not, but it's not a good way to keep track of number of meals and people eating. > There are a couple of other issues that need to be thought about: > > some people that have not been sponsored for food will want to pay for > food, possibly on a day-by-day basis, so that they can continue a > conversation with some people that have been sponsored. > > We'll have someone collecting money for non-sponsored people as we pay directly to the food catering service. > Some people who have been sponsored for food will notice that there > are places outside the venue that sell good food (possibly at prices > that strike them as very cheap) and opt to go out and pay for food, > despite being sponsored. It would be good if DebConf doesn't have to > pay for their empty seat. > > This is the reason why we quite often end up with food tickets being > issued, and then collected on the door of the restaurant, so that DebConf > can keep track of actual numbers of people eating, and also sell extra > tickets to people that are not sponsored. > > There is also the fact that the venue might not trust our figures, and > want to do their own accounting -- in that case the food ticket approach > works as the venue can take care of only giving food to people that give > them either cash or a food token, and then the venue can present us with > the food tokens as proof of the amount we owe them. > > Of course, this means that the tokens end up being currency, and need to > be handled with something like the same care. > > If you can come up with a better scheme, great :-) (the tokens are > always a pain to produce and administer, because they pretty much have > to be done as people turn up, because people turn up and realise they > want to eat with their friends, and want to pay to be counted among the > sponsored) > > Whatever you do should provide something like the same features though, > unless perhaps you can negotiate a reasonable flat-rate with the venue, > so that we don't have to care so much if more or less people turn up > than we've paid for. > > Food team, please? :) > Cheers, Phil. > -- > |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] http://www.hands.com/ > |-| HANDS.COM Ltd. http://www.uk.debian.org/ > |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND > > _______________________________________________ > Debconf12-localteam mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf12-localteam > >
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