>i remember several shares being regularly on the order of 5000 and >comments about the size limiting the locations available for the >meetings. then there were a couple combined guide/share meetings that >were a little larger (maybe around 6000?) SHARE and GUIDE had two combined meetings, the first in October 1968 and the second in Washington in 1998. The combined attendance in 1968 was about 3500 and in 1998 about 2100. Peek SHARE attendance was 5806 in Anaheim in 1990. The high attendance was the catalyst for IBM to begin running its own conferences. SHARE develops a budget by estimating attendance and multiplying by the registration rate to calculate anticipated revenue. SHARE made its budget numbers for Seattle and Baltimore and the budget is balanced for 2006. Incidentally, the 1968 meeting preceded a vote to merge SHARE and GUIDE. The merger was approved by both the SHARE and GUIDE Boards, but was subsequently rejected by the SHARE membership. >i seem to also remember that some locations had various kinds of labor >rules ... resulting in some claim that SHARE would never go back to >those places. These problems are ongoing. Chicago in 1999 was particularly bad with respect to unions. The service was good, but the cost was prohibitive. Bob Shannon Rocket Software
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