On 8/4/12 1:31 PM, "Dave Crocker" <dhc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >However the tendency of the community has been to express preference for >the tourism of going to new places. > >If we really want venues to function towards some ideal, we need the >benefit of a multi-visit learning curve. > >And it means we stop being tourists. Of course holding meetings in a range of locations, some new, also provides the opportunity to attract new meeting hosts rather than relying on a small pool of regular hosts. Ultimately, there are pros and cons to either model and the current model does not seem especially bad (quite the contrary I think). And, as they say, 'variety is the spice of life'. ;-) Perhaps when we the Internet is less dynamic (I hope it is never so) we could meet in just one city all the time, as I understand some other standards development group does. ;-) Jason