Re: Hotel situation

[Phillip Hallam-Baker <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Melinda Shore <[e-mail]> wrote:
> On 12/16/15 8:05 AM, Ted Lemon wrote:
>> This is an excellent point, and reinforces my belief that you'd be a
>> good IAOC candidate.
>
> I have no interest in being a professional IETFer but I
> have considerable interest in having meetings be effective
> (I'd like to see them deprioritized, but as long as there
> are working group chairs who treat them as the locus of
> working group activity that's not going to happen).  There
> are productivity costs associated with being at an
> overflow hotel - working breakfast meetings become more
> difficult and impromptu conversations become constrained
> to the hours someone is in the building.
>
> I don't know what Usenix is doing these days but back
> when I was heavily involved we always seemed to find
> hotels that could accommodate most attendees.  But, they
> had a very, very skilled professional meeting organizer
> on staff rather than relying on a committee of volunteers.

Looking at their list of past meetings, the vast majority are in the
US. The ones outside the US are almost all regional conferences or the
annual storage conference in Haifa.