On Jan 9, 2012, at 9:29 PM, Doug Hughes wrote: > >> Given that LISA moves from city to city each year, does it really need to >> pick the city more than a year in advance? You do want to be able to say at >> LISA one year where the next one will be, but do you really need to know 3+ >> years ahead? > > yes, because there's usually only one hotel in that city that meets all of > the criteria during a particular time, and because Usenix runs a lot of > conferences, not just one, and because Usenix can only run more one big > conference at a time, and because arranging for all of the tutorial > instructors, registrants, paper presenters, keynote requires a defined date > many months in advance. Keynotes sometimes require a year.
If the max value in your list of "lead-times" is a year, for keynotes, why again do they have to schedule things three years in advance? It seems that lead-time could be cut down to "just over a year" (basically, a couple months before the "current" LISA book the hotel for the "next" LISA, so you can announce the location and such at the "current" LISA). I mean, look, I've not missed a year in a long time, and I pay the conference rate for hotels, generally speaking, but I'd like it to be cheaper as much as the next guy (cheaper it is, more people go, greater the value, etc. etc. etc.), and if the lead-time is one of the things driving up some of the costs, then I'm not convinced they need to be booking more than "just over a year" out. D _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
