Re: [81attendees] are we getting complacent? Good job!

[Joe Touch <[e-mail]>]

On 8/1/2011 4:30 PM, David Kessens wrote:
>
> Keith,
>
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 04:38:15PM -0400, Keith Moore wrote:
>>
>> Seriously, given that we're committed to having meetings all over the
>> world, do these details really rise to the level of things that the planning
>> staff needs to think about?
>
> You might call them details, but if you end up spending pretty much the same
> amount of time and money traveling within north america, as compared to
> traveling to asia or europe, there is very little meaning left to trying to
> spread the pain of travel around by having a meeting schedule that schedules
> meetings in three different regions.

That's my conclusion.

FWIW, Santa Barbara was mentioned jokingly, but would have been 
infinitely easier to get to -- huge numbers of flights to LAX and an 
"airbus" that goes between the two in under two hours 16x a day.

Joe