[Ansteorra] A thought about why people leave for feast... oth er than the ...

[Harris Mark.S-rsve60]

Carlos asked:
> My question to this is this. If your expecting 300 people to
> come to the
> event "why get a place that will only hold 100".
> If I was the event steward I would look for a place that
> could hold the
> expected gate. I would say this would handle the problem.

Well, that was a theoretical question. Since Ian had
declared "I will never aske anyone not to join us...", I
wanted to see what he would do in a situation not easily
worked around.

Why would you use such a site? There could be numerous
reasons, even in Ansteorra. In other parts of the Known
World, large halls can get extremely expensive and the
cost to rent them does not go up linearly with the size,
but on an increasing curve.

But in your area, say you wanted to put on an equestrian
event and the only possible place to hold it had only
that hall mentioned. Would you choose not to put on
the event? Yes, it would be nice to always have the
perfect site with the perfect facilities. But alas,
those sites are few and far between. So, you have to
work around the problems that exist. So what would
you do?

Stefan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harris Mark.S-rsve60 <Mark.s.Harris at motorola.com>
> To: 'ansteorra at ansteorra.org' <ansteorra at ansteorra.org>
> Date: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 7:08 PM
> Subject: RE: [Ansteorra] A thought about why people leave for
> feast... oth
> er than the ...
>
>
> >Ian Macleod declared:
> >> I will never ask anyone to not join us at feast
> >> simply because they
> >> would rather have dinty moore beef stew over a french feast.
> >> At least that
> >> will never happen at an event that I autocrat.  My friends
> >> will be welcome at
> >> my table, whether they bought a feast, or brought a feast.
> >
> >Well Ian, in most cases I agree with you. I think my
> >position is stated at the end of all that stuff that was
> >attached to your comments. I happen to think if it can
> >be handled by the cooks and the servers, allowing on and
> >off board to eat together is the best way.
> >
> >However, for the discussion here, let's say you are the
> >Event Steward for an event in your area. The event is
> >expected to draw 300 people but the only hall on the
> >site has room for only 100 people. The feast is being
> >cooked for 80. And yes, I know these numbers are a bit
> >unlikely for an event in your region.
> >
> >Anyway, how would you handle it.
> >
> >THL Stefan li Rous
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