Re: [73attendees] Attendance by country

["Romascanu, Dan (Dan)" <[e-mail]>]

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail] 
> [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Nicholas Weaver
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 11:34 PM
> To: Ben Campbell
> Cc: [e-mail]; Nicholas Weaver
> Subject: Re: [73attendees] Attendance by country
> 
> 
> On Dec 3, 2008, at 1:29 PM, Ben Campbell wrote:
> 

> 
> If thats the goal, center the conference where lots of 
> attendees live in any geographic area, so, eg, if in the US, 
> stick to Silicon Valley and Seattle, Washington, because 
> in-town attendees can commute and out- of-town attendees are 
> more likely to have friends in the industry.
> 
> You can cut your attendence bill by a good 30%+ for a 
> conference by staying with a friend or relative, and the 
> company is better anyway.
> 

... and have the bill be paid constantly by folks who are coming from
other geographical areas for whom a Seattle or California location means
another five or six hours of flight each way added to the transatlantic
flights, another additional three hours of jetlag, another several
hundreds of dollars in tickets and expenses, and two full weekends
remote from home for each meeting? 

Dan


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