On 5/23/13 10:30 AM, Alia Atlas wrote: > Never been to Buenos Aires - but it sounds like a great idea. I'm skeptical that it will change much - it seems likely to me that we'll get a bunch of one-time attendees and that we'll be doing really well to get one new person who becomes a continuing participant. That said, I do think it will be *extremely* valuable to get feedback from those one-time attendees about what they're seeing in our documents, and that we should be trying to figure out ahead of time how to engage those one-time attendees. Traveling from Fairbanks, pretty much anywhere is a long, long trip and quite expensive relative to what most people pay for airfare, so actual location doesn't make that much of a difference to me personally. I also don't think it's that big a deal if a few regulars miss one meeting because it's too far or too costly or whatever. So as I said, I'm skeptical, but I think the potential benefits of giving this a shot outweigh the likely downsides. Melinda