arrivals dinner question

[Matthew Persico]

I’ll sign up for whatever place you pick. I’ll be in salt lake by 3pm that
day.

On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 23:00 Brian Mielke via yapc <yapc at pm.org> wrote:

> I spoke with the Bayou and discussed the situation with them.  They do not
> take reservations, but they can be prepared for a large party to show up at
> 630-7pm on Sunday night.  I said 10-20 and that was pretty vague to them,
> so I said I would let them know when I got a more solid count.  I also
> asked them about special instructions for people from other countries or
> out of state, since this place is required to card everyone by Utah law.
> Everyone will need either a US drivers license or a foreign passport.  They
> iterated even Canadians would need to have a passport and not just their
> drivers license. This place does have a full bar so we can order drinks
> while waiting for tables if necessary.
>
> It sounds like the Bayou may work for us with a little bit of flexibility
> for a party up to about 20 in size.  Should I go ahead and just start
> updating the wiki and asking for a head count for the Bayou?  If we get
> over 20 people to sign up, I can try to call up some other places too such
> as Charlie Chows.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian
>
> > On Jun 13, 2018, at 14:06, James E Keenan <jkeenan at pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 06/12/2018 11:15 PM, Brian Mielke via yapc wrote:
> >> I just signed up for this mailing list, so I may be repeating something
> asked/stated earlier so I apologize in advance.
> >> A few of us at my company were discussing the arrivals dinner
> yesterday.  I was informed that there was a request for someone to help
> organize a venue. Has anyone stepped up for this yet?  If not, I can help
> by calling restaurants in the area near Little America.  I'd just like a
> little assistance in attendance estimates.  It sounds like we had about 30
> people at the arrivals dinner last year and had quite a few more people at
> the arrivals dinner in SLC in 2015.
> >> Here was a link a coworker dug up for the 2015 arrivals dinner details:
> >> http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/wiki?node=PreConferenceActivities
> >> Thanks,
> >> Brian Mielke
> >
> > Brian,
> >
> > No, as yet no one has stepped up to the plate.
> >
> > https://github.com/perlconference/tpc-2018-slc/wiki/Arrival-Dinner has
> a link to how we organized this event in 2015.
> >
> > I'm attaching the "Call for Arrival Dinner Organizers" post I made to
> this list on May 26 (probably before you signed up for the list).  It has
> information about how this event was organized in the past.
> >
> > Since we're so close to arrivals day, we might perhaps dispense with my
> recommendation to negotiate a prix fixe buffet with a restaurant, and
> instead simply make a reservation for 10 and have people order a la carte.
> If by, say, Saturday, we have more than 10 people signed up, we can simply
> ask for more tables.
> >
> > If, for example, you were willing to make a couple of phone calls to
> restaurants to get the ball rolling, then post on the wiki page above, that
> would get the ball rolling.
> >
> > (You or anyone else interested can contact me off list for further
> hints.)
> >
> > Thank you very much.
> > Jim Keenan
> > <call-for-arrivals-dinner-organizers.txt>
>
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Matthew O. Persico
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