Re: IETF Meeting Venue Selection Criteria

On Friday, October 21, 2005 03:14:48 AM +1300 Andrew McGregor 
<andrew@indranet.co.nz> wrote:

>
> On 20/10/2005, at 11:25 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>>
>> It's very hard to get those data. We've tried looking
>> at how many local first-time attendees from (say) Korea
>> later became regular attendees but the data are hard to
>> state in any meaningful way and the time constants are
>> long (years). There is no objective way to identify 'primary
>> contributors' other than by assuming the regular attendees are
>> also contributors.
>>
>> We certainly know that going a long way from most places,
>> as we did in Adelaide, impacts attendance significantly -
>> but my recollection is that Adelaide was a very successful
>> meeting in terms of WGs making progress.
>
> As a data point, I'm now a regular attendee, and that is entirely
> because the Adelaide meeting was within the radius of where I could
> travel just to see if participating would be useful.  As it turned  out,
> it was and has been useful, certainly to me and my company and  I'd hope
> to the IETF.

Pittsburgh's not as exotic a locale as Adelaide, but it had the same effect 
for me -- attending a local meeting is what got me active in the IETF.

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
   Sr. Research Systems Programmer
   School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA

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