[H-GEN] Re: LCA Bid Venue Update

[Russell Stuart]

On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 18:55 -0500, Paul Gearon wrote:
> On Apr 14, 2007, at 6:02 PM, Russell Stuart wrote:
> >> Certainly somewhere in Southbank for the dinner is an option.  
> >> Where close
> >> to the general public is a good place for the Open Day?
> >
> > Southbank is good for lots of reasons, but I suspect that
> > unless we are going to feed them fish and chips on the
> > hill having dinner there isn't one of them.  There are
> > bugger all places that hold 700 guests in Brisbane - none
> > of them are in Southbank.
> 
> I attended a Linux conference at UQ some years ago (was it 2001?).   
> The dinner then was held at the Convention Centre.  They seemed to do  
> a decent job of it, and should easily manage that number.  You may  
> want to ask them again?
> 
> I can't recall who was involved in organizing the conference, though  
> I know it included several HUMBUG members.  The MC at the dinner was  
> Jason Parker (who did a great job, as I recall).

I have approached the Convention Centre (details on the
wiki).  They have yet to formally respond (and when they
do the details will be posted to the wiki), but over the 
phone they indicated that they would be able to handle 
the numbers, and the price would be $95 per head.  They 
had our previous dinner on file and I suspect this was 
to provide the same thing they quoted on last time.

As I have said before, I think the Brisbane 2002 dinner 
was the best run one I have attended at an LCA.  However 
we will have to do better on the price.