Re: So, where to repeat? (was:Re: management granularity)

[Mary Barnes <[e-mail]>]

Flights to Vancouver from some cities were extremely expensive.  It would
have cost me more than twice as much as it did to fly to Beijing, for
example, if I had taken a direct flight from DFW - it would have been by
far my most expensive IETF airfare ever. I didn't because I was trying to
be cost conscious.  However, I could have flown to London in the same time
it took me to get to/from Vancouver and for about the same price.  This is
a typical problem when we go somewhere when tourists go (for some reason,
flying to cities in Canada is very popular when the temp in Texas is 110
degrees F).     Orlando will most likely be just as bad since it is
scheduled during a time where many schools in DFW area have Spring Break -
flight costs right now are over $500 ($560).  I can usually fly anywhere in
the U.S. for around $300 when I book early.  And, of course, I can't book
early as my company won't re-imburse unless I use their travel company and
have approval (which I won't get for at least another 5-6 months).
Hopefully, the IETF negotiated hotel rate won't reflect that it is Spring
Break.

If we were to choose one place in the U.S. to meet, Minneapolis is the best
choice IMHO.  It's very reasonably priced, easy for many to get to and the
hotel has adequate space for us (even back when we had many more
attendees).  Personally, the weather is not critical to me, since I spend
the vast majority of my time in the hotel meeting rooms, so I'm very happy
if we meet there in March and November.

Mary

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Dearlove, Christopher (UK) <
[e-mail]> wrote:

> I've never been to an IETF meeting where the plane fare has exceeded the
> hotel cost for a week. Caveats to that are that I have mostly gone for IETF
> recommended hotels, so may have missed particularly cheap hotels, and that
> I have only been to North American and Europe (but that statistic includes
> Vancouver and the even further away western US cities down to San Diego).
> And of course I fly economy, and it's much cheaper including a Saturday
> night in your trip, even at the cost of an extra night in a hotel (at least
> it is from here). An almost exception was Paris this year where I was
> staying fairly cheaply, but that was a cost-shared trip between me and my
> employer, and I didn't fly (I went by train - though that's not cheaper,
> just better). Paris has cheap(er) hotels and a metro I understand, so I
> felt less location constrained.
>
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> When you are not close (time), flight cost may become higher in the
> priority (over hotem)....
> Flying to Vancouver for me for example is the most expensive trip....even
> though the city is amazing and the host was wonderful!
>
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> Dublin's problem was that the venue was isolated from the city. This has
> also been the case with e.g. San Diego. (I'm assuming no personal car.)
> Contrast with Minneapolis (and several other places) where you were right
> in the city. Being in a city is better for lunch and dinner options, taking
> a break to go to a bookshop (or to buy something you forgot to bring) and
> so on. (I'm deliberately not including tourism here.)
>
> However at the moment my priorities to make being able to attend possible
> would be time (so the closer to me the better - I realise that's impossible
> globally), cost (hotel first, flight second, rest is noise) and the ability
> to plan ahead to only attend part of the week. This is the current economic
> reality. Dublin actually scores quite well on those for me.
>
> --
> Christopher Dearlove
> Senior Principal Engineer, Communications Group
> Communications, Networks and Image Analysis Capability
> BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centre
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> Dublin panned? I thought it was one of the best venues and locations of
> the last meetings.
>
> What about Italy or Spain? I've never heard about an IETF in Italy. I'm ok
> with meetings outside Italy since i like traveling very much, but i was
> wondering why it has never been taken into account in the past meetings. Is
> it expensive? I think Italy and Spain are much cheaper than France, UK or
> Sweden, aren't they?
>
> BR
> Daniele
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On
> >Behalf Of Andrew Sullivan
> >Sent: lunedì 6 agosto 2012 14.06
> >To: [e-mail]
> >Subject: So, where to repeat? (was:Re: management granularity)
> >
> >On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 11:58:19AM -0700, Dave Crocker wrote:
> >> enough merely to have excellent staff.  We need to go back to the
> >> better places and benefit from the learning curve.  This
> >doesn't mean
> >> "no new venues" but it means fewer.
> >
> >As a practical matter, may I ask about which venues you want
> >to return to?  I get your argument in principle, but it seems
> >to me that there has been quite a lot of complaining in the
> >past.  The one factor that seems to me most likely to reduce
> >complaints -- weather -- is evidently beyond the Secretariat's
> >or IAOC's control.
> >
> >People seem inclined to return to the Hyatt in Vancouver,
> >elevators notwithstanding.  We're going to do that.  (I don't
> >understand why the previous Vencouver venue was less desirable
> >-- to me, these venues were very similar, and not very far
> >apart.  I note, however, that the previous two Vancouver
> >visits were near the end of the year, when it rains all the
> >time in Vancouver.)
> >
> >People complained at length about the venue in Paris, so I
> >presume it's out.
> >
> >Some people complained about the hotel room prices and travel
> >expense in Taipei, though I heard remarks that it was a good venue.
> >Should we try to return there?
> >
> >People complained in advance about getting to Québec, although
> >afterwards I heard lots of good noises about that venue.  I
> >note that the weather was great.  Should we try to return?
> >
> >I don't recall much complaining about the Prague venue in
> >2011, which was striking to me because very little seemed
> >different to me compared to our first visit there.  Perhaps
> >this is evidence of the "tuning"
> >you suggest (ensuring the water bottles were plastic, for instance).
> >But I note the weather was excellent.
> >
> >Beijing?  I guess Maastricht is out. Anaheim (FWIW, I thought
> >that was an example of a terrible location, but many people
> >seemed happy with it)?  Hiroshima?  Stockholm?  San Francisco
> >(we thought the crime at Paris was bad, yet didn't complain
> >about being smack up against the Tenderloin)?  Or there's the
> >old standby, Minneapolis; perhaps we could do it in March.
> >The Dublin venue was panned by large numbers of people.
> >Philadelphia, people complained about expense.  Chicago, too
> >(combined with hotel renovations).
> >
> >That gets us back through 2007.  Which of the venues do you
> >think we should return to, to which we already haven't
> >returned or planned to return?  And why?
> >
> >For what it's worth, I would not complain about returning to
> >any of those venues; I personally had good meetings at all of
> >them except Hiroshima, which I missed due to other
> >commitments.  That includes both Maastricht and Dublin, which
> >were both apparently trials for large numbers of others.
> >
> >Best,
> >
> >A
> >
> >--
> >Andrew Sullivan
> >[e-mail]
> >
> >
>
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