>>>>> "Michael" == Michael StJohns <mstjohns@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Michael> Fred said this much more eloquently than I could.
Michael> On the IETF78 attendees list there's been a lot of
Michael> discussion about where to meet - with the primary
Michael> consideration seeming to be "pretty and small". I may be
Michael> in the minority, but I'd really rather the IETF go places
Michael> where the ability to "get work done" is the primary
Michael> consideration.
Yeah, I'm all for meeting in Europe once a year, but does it have to be
in the peak of Summer? Seriously. As long as I'm in a hotel conference
centre all day, I might as well be north of the Artic Circle in November.
Michael> So going forward, I hope the considerations for location
Michael> will give higher weight to meeting the needs of the folks
Michael> doing the work (my second list of folk) and the folks who
Michael> keep coming back (the first list) than to the single
Michael> meeting snap shots. Its possible the demographics for my
Michael> two lists are similar to the raw demographics so my point
Michael> may be moot - but why guess when we have the data?
A good question.
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