[foss4g2014] Setting Conference Pricing

Wed Feb 19 13:17:29 PST 2014

Hi All,
In speaking with the Oregon Convention Center, to bring in food carts a buyout is required (meaning FOSS4G has to pay the OCC's exclusive in-house caterer money to account for their lost revenue), which does not provide additional cost savings to FOSS4G.  In OCC's experience in planning their own events, it has been difficult to get food cart vendors to agree to come to the venue since only a nominal amount of carts within the city are portable.

OCC's in-house caterer does have a few food carts of their own, however the cost for the carts and the food would be at FOSS4G's expense, not the attendees.

Regards,
Beth

From: foss4g2014-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:foss4g2014-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Kristin Bott
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 11:43 AM
To: Darrell Fuhriman
Cc: Brad Smith; foss4g2014; Brad Smith
Subject: Re: [foss4g2014] Setting Conference Pricing

for TEDxConcordia a year or two ago, they brought in food carts (n=3?) for the attendees (n=I don't remember, bah)... and the logistics were a bit rough. Tiny kitchen, lots of demand all within a 45-minute time-window.

Should be fairly solve-able (limited menus, whatever) -- I'm happy to see if I can track down the TEDx organizers to get a bit of info about how this all worked on the set-up side? Eh?

-k.bott

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Darrell Fuhriman <darrell at garnix.org<mailto:darrell at garnix.org>> wrote:
please expand!

What's the "tricky" part?

d.

On Feb 18, 2014, at 22:00, Brad Smith <brad at hotpepper.com<mailto:brad at hotpepper.com>> wrote:

Food at the OCC? I can really go on about that : )

There's a parking lot across from the OCC and we used that to bring in some carts...it's kinda tricky, but it may be feasible.

Brad

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On Feb 18, 2014, at 9:39 PM, Wm Leler wrote:

I believe Brad Smith has brought in food carts during the Webvisions conference at the OCC.
You can ask him about their experiences.
I've copied him on this email.

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On 17 Feb 2014, at 12:51 PM, Darrell Fuhriman <darrell at garnix.org<mailto:darrell at garnix.org>> wrote:

That's a great idea - and close enough we could easily convince people to attend - assuming we could round up enough actually mobile carts.

Molly and Beth are working on actual catering estimates, so let's wait until they come back with something, but this seems pretty promising as an alternative.

Similarly, I'd like to wait for the numbers so we can do some estimating of how much we could lower the cost so we can be specific in our poll, which I think is worthwhile to do...

d.

On Feb 13, 2014, at 17:12, TC Haddad <tchaddad at gmail.com<mailto:tchaddad at gmail.com>> wrote:

Actually it looks like in 2014 there will only be one farmers market (on Tuesdays)

The location that hosts those farmers markets is owned by a private entity and they might be amenable to a cart fest. They currently already host:

Tuesday: Farmers market
Wednesday: music in the park
Thursday: nothing - maybe we can schedule a cart fest?
Friday: nothing - maybe we can schedule a cart fest?

you can see more about the venue here:

http://www.langleyinvestmentproperties.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/013113-Oregon-Square-Fact-Sheet-Langley.pdf

it is 3 blocks (or one max station) away form OCC.

Tanya

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Matt Sayler <matt.sayler at gmail.com<mailto:matt.sayler at gmail.com>> wrote:

OCC I can pretty much guarantee would have a problem with that. Washington CC had a problem with people selling cookies for charity at PAX (The Cookie Brigade). Actually, weren't even selling them technically. Taking donations.
On Feb 13, 2014 4:41 PM, "Darrell Fuhriman" <darrell at garnix.org<mailto:darrell at garnix.org>> wrote:
Now that's an interesting idea.

But being owned by the OCC, I wonder if they'd let us get away with that...

I like the idea, and it is very Portland.

d.

On Feb 13, 2014, at 16:30, Justin R. Miller <justin at mapbox.com<mailto:justin at mapbox.com>> wrote:

> Something OpenSourceBridge and (I think) other conferences have had luck with is bringing in food carts to the plaza by the MLK statue during lunch for the benefit of the attendees. It was heavily promoted by the conference to try to ensure a good turnout and making it worth the owner's time. The cart I remember in particular was Koi Fusion.

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