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>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Jaeggli <joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Joel> Predicting how many people are going to show up far in advance
Joel> (say a year) is a different kind of finacial risk, than the
Joel> current current set. Knowing with certantity what cities (and
Joel> by extension hotels) the meetings are going to be in in a year
Joel> means having potentially costly contracts in place that you
Joel> may or may not be in a postion to fund (consider the attendee
Joel> flucuations over the time frame 2000-2002 for example).
I don't need to know which hotel, nor even which city, or even which
country.
I would like to know which continent.
It would also be enough to know, for instance, "not North America"
The cost of flying to Geneva or Venice (or Syndey vs Auckland) is not
significantly different
(it's ~$1400 for Europe, and around ~$2300 for anywhere in the pacific
rim for me, while a trip to Washington, DC is ~$700. Of course, you can
do better, and you can do much worse. But these numbers represent
reasonable advance planning)
What also matters is that I know how far I have to go, how much
time-zone time adjustment time I have to add, if there are other
conferences that may either conflict or complement my travel, and in the
case of summer IETFs, if my family thinks they want to attach a
side-trip.
I suspect that many would also like to know "US vs non-US", given the
difficulties of getting in/out of that country.
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