Re: Financials web page - absolutely last call

[Leslie Daigle <leslie@thinkingcat.com>]

One specific point I'd like to follow up:

RJ Atkinson wrote:
> Finally, historic conversations with Marcia have indicated that the way 
> hotels
> work, we can't just cut expenses by cutting the IETF meeting food budget.
> If I understood her several years ago (and if things haven't changed), then
> hotels expect groups using meeting rooms to order some amount of food
> as part of the room package.  Someone might want to confirm the current
> facts with her, then put a note up about this to forestall the inevitable
> ("just cut the food budget and redirect that money to foo") comments.

I saw an earlier draft of the financials, and heard this argument.
Without doubting the veracity of the argument (and without becoming
an expert meeting planner myself), I think it would be useful to

	1. put this explanation on the web page
	2. collect some alternative hypothesis data from
	   Foretec -- i.e., if we had no food for one of those
	   meetings, what would the rooms have cost


Leslie.