RE: Varying meeting venue -- why?

Ross Callon <rcallon@juniper.net> Mon, 16 August 2010 15:50 UTC

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From: Ross Callon <rcallon@juniper.net>
To: John C Klensin <john@jck.com>, "barryleiba@computer.org" <barryleiba@computer.org>, IETF discussion list <ietf@ietf.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:29:42 -0400
Subject: RE: Varying meeting venue -- why?
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>> I think Vancouver would be an excellent city for a recurring
>> North American meeting.  There is a reasonable convenience
>> factor in terms of nearby hotels, restuarants and food
>> markets (there's an excellent one just a couple blocks from
>> the venue).  However, based on the poll, it seemed that folks
>> preferred Quebec City, which suggests that the majority of
>> folks don't favor the idea of returning to the same city.
> 
> One thing this suggests to me is that the people who are prone
> to taking the survey favour the idea of variety.  I dismember
> how many survey responses we had, and how the responses broke
> down when categorized by number of IETF meetings attended, so
> I can't be sure, here.  But I'm guessing that many of the
> responses came from the long-timers who will go wherever the
> meeting is, and that not so many came from the folks who are
> relatively new and are considering increasing their
> participation.

I waded through the various responses in the survey (the link having been conveniently sent out a few days ago), and it does indeed seem that the preference for variety was a significant factor (it being mentioned by many of the survey participants). I am not sure whether it is safe to extrapolate this to the conclusion that people don't want to rotate between just a few cities on a long term basis. 

Ross