On Aug 12, 2014, at 6:24 PM, Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The reason given for not returning to Minneapolis is that only the >> core participants show up, and that cuts into much-needed conference >> revenue, making us less self-sufficient. > > Am I reading this correctly - we sometimes go to attractive > holiday destinations to pull in people who don't participate > much, as a way of underwriting meeting costs? Say rather less unattractive destinations. I think we get better numbers in Dallas than Minneapolis. I don't understand why--Minneapolis is one of my favorite IETF destinations--but that's what Ray said during the Admin plenary a couple of IETFs ago, and I see no reason to doubt him! And it's not just meeting costs. There are a lot of costs to running IETF.