Ted,
On 2014-08-13 01:15, Ted Lemon wrote:
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.
I guess we lost most of the advantages we had going to Minneapolis by
not going there for a long time
we had the hotel "trained" and the hotel stuff knew us quite well
Now I guess that any other city can compete with Minneaplis
/Loa
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