[H-GEN] [Fwd: Visiting Brisbane r.e. lca 2010 bid]

[Gary Curtis]

List,

Did I not hear somewhere that the Nepalese pagoda was being closed for
maintenance?

Gaz


On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 16:48, Russell Stuart
<russell-humbug at stuart.id.au> wrote:
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> Looking at the email below, you can see LA plans to visit us to check
> our bid out.  We didn't do so well at this last year.  This year I plan
> to do a better job.
>
> That job will consist of taking them on a walk through of QUT, and then
> onto the other venues we will be using.  Right now I have verbal "yeah,
> sure that will be no problem - we will be happy to do a sell job on
> them" assurances from most of the venues.  But now we have come to the
> pointy end of the stick and they have to make a commitment.
>
> But before that can happen, we, Humbug, have to make a few decisions.
> And given the first date they propose - and their and my preferred one,
> is this weekend, these decisions have to be made here, on this list, in
> the next day or two.
>
> The first one is comparatively easy.  Here are the three three possible
> venues for the Speakers Dinner:
>
> Option 1: Cruise the river and dine in historical elegance
>
>  Brisbane cruises ...................... From  $ 47 pp
>    1 hour cruise with drinks & canapés
>  Customs House ......................... From  $120 pp
>    2 course meal with 4 hour drinks
>                                          =============
>                                          TOTAL $167 pp
>
>
> Option 2: A true South Bank experience
>
>  Nepalese Pagoda ....................... From  $ 40 pp ($10 hire + $30 F&B)
>    1 hour drinks and canapés
>  River Room ............................ From  $ 96 pp ($19 hire + $77 F&B)
>    2 course meal with 4 hour drinks
>                                          =============
>                                          TOTAL $136 pp
>
>
> Option 3: Drink in some culture then dine in style at Riverside
>
>  Nepalese Pagoda ....................... From  $ 40 pp ($10 hire + $30 F&B)
>    1 hour drinks and canapés
>  Transfer by CityCat to Riverside, ..... From  $102 pp ($11 hire + $91 F&B)
>  Downtown Rugby Club
>     2 course meal with 4 hour drinks
>                                          =============
>                                          TOTAL $142 pp (+ CityCat ride)
>
> All we have to do is choose one.  Post you preference / comments here.
> If there is a clear consensus by 5 PM tomorrow I will go with that, but
> if you are all too slack to reply I will go with Option 1.  The options
> above were actually part of the original bid document Brisbane Marketing
> gave us, and there may be more information on them in there.  But don't
> count on it.  You can find there original bid document here:
>
> http://www.stuart.id.au/lcawiki/BidDocument/Bid?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=080829-Bid_LCA2010.doc
>
> One I have that decision in hand and gather responses from the venues on
> what dates they are available, I will know what dates are possible.
> Then, if there are several, we will have to choose one.  That will
> happen on by Thursday midday.
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Stewart Smith <stewart at linux.org.au>
> To: Russell Stuart <russell-linuxaus at stuart.id.au>
> Cc: council <council at linux.org.au>
> Subject: Visiting Brisbane r.e. lca 2010 bid
> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:13:33 +1000
> Hi Russell,
>
> Firstly, thanks very much for the bid - we've received a few and they
> all look great. It's going to be a hard decision this year.
>
> That being said, we'd like to organise a time to spend some for myself
> to spend some f2f time with the Brisbane 2010 bidding team, have a bit
> of a walk around the venue etc.
>
> Personally, I was thinking that before the final bid deadline would be
> more useful to the team. This does give us some time restrictions
> though.
>
> This means either this weekend or Sunday next weekend (Saturday is the
> LCA2009 papers f2f in Hobart).
>
> Alternative dates would be 27th,28th September or early October, but
> this is after the final bid deadline.
>
> Would any of these days be good for your team?
>
>
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