Historically, going back to the first RUG in 1993, it has indeed always been
east coast or west coast.
In fact for the first 6 years at least (I think? Someone who has a list of them
all can answer this) I think,
were all in the Bay Area. Certainly 8 of the first 10. The only times it has
been off the West coast were
Disneyland (or DisneyWorld whichever is in Florida) and Washington DC.
Next: As for votes we actually did something similar back in 2010 for choosing
future cities, and asked attendees for suggestions.
First we did a short list of suitable cities out of what the attendees
suggested, then had votes on which work best, then we did the actual venue.
Some of the factors considered (at least by me and the WWRUG Board):
Availability of Venues (and the requirements are more restrictive than you
might think and I can only plan a year ahead not four or five)
Direct flights from as many locations as possible.
How easy is it for BMC to send as many Remedy technical people as possible (one
of the reasons for the return to San Jose)
Weather - We try to pick somewhere that weather will affect us as little as
possible.
This can change based on when the conference is held,
however, we decided to stick to a consistent timeframe unlike the RUGs of past.
Why San Jose not Houston? A combination of a great experience at the Fairmont,
a tie in the votes for the two cities, 6 months to get the conference together,
better for Remedy technical people
The Venues, flights, timezone same as California etc. was a huge factor when we
scrambled to create the first WWRUG in 2009. Las Vegas for direct flights is as
good as it gets.
Please note that if WWRUG continues the plan is Chicago for 2014, I hope that
counts as central.
Happy to chat with folks at WWRUG13 about what goes into creating a conference;
it makes a 1200 line project plan for an Enterprise ITSM system look
easy/simple/straight forward.
Daniel
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