[Speakers] Oracle willing to pay for pizza

[Ian Kluft]

I'm responding from Amsterdam.  Unfortunately I'm going to miss the
SVLUG meeting because I'll still be on the plane enroute to home.

>From: bill at wards.net (William R Ward)
>To: officers at lists.svlug.org, speakers at lists.svlug.org
>Subject: [Speakers] Oracle willing to pay for pizza
>
>I just heard that Oracle is willing to pay for pizza for the SVLUG
>meeting tomorrow night.  Is that permitted by the venue?  Since we
>don't normally have food at the meetings, I'm not sure if it's not
>allowed, there's a tradition against it, or just that most vendors
>don't feel like paying for it.
>
>I need to know today if I should order pizza.  And if so, how many
>people should I order for?  How many pizzas should I get?  What
>toppings?

My information is from when SVLUG initially started meeting at Cisco
in Bldg J in 1998.  At the time, there was no outside food service
allowed due to a union agreement related to the cafeteria in the same
building.  I don't know if anything has changed in Bldg 9 (since the
HQ cafeteria is in Bldg 11) or for other reasons over the past 5 years.
Tracy Vierra would have the contacts or info

(Note for anyone reading this in the archives, call Tracy only for purposes
related to the SVLUG meeting room reservation - otherwise ask the speakers
list.  Don't bother him about asking for reservations on behalf of any other
group (which is a frequently-abused question), since he's only the technical
contact for the department whose managers signed to pay for the room
reservation.  It isn't possible to reserve the room unless someone in Cisco
management offers to sign for the room expenses first.  The sponsors of
SVLUG's meeting have usually been at the VP or Senior VP level.)