>>>>> "Ole" == Ole Jacobsen <ole@xxxxxxxxx> writes: Ole> On Wed, 8 Aug 2012, Geoff Mulligan wrote: >> So I'm confused... We're we talking about the possibility of >> sticking to one European city, one north American city and one Asian >> city and not picking various cities throughout the world. Ole> Oh, I see. My reading was that we would focus on small number of Ole> cities in each region, especially since we cannot depend on ONE Ole> being always available for our dates, host and sponsorship Ole> notwithstanding. I understood what Ole did. I think that over a decade, the small number would go from ~7 to perhaps 2 in each region. That's because we'd wind up signing multi-year contracts with hotels that we liked. (which is, I understand, why we repeated in Minneapolis)