1) I'm also in favor of Canadian venues for North American meetings. 2) On long term contracts, you can get some saving, but you have to be careful. I have some experience with holding a convention in the same city every year for decades. If you stick with the same facility year after year, you go through a series of phases. The first year things can be a little rough because they don't know your group. The second year they have learned and for the next 2, 3, maybe 4+ years, things usually go very smoothly and you get good rates and service (barring a change in facility ownership/management). But, sooner or later, perhaps around 5+ years, the facility starts to take you for granted, there is turn-over in the facility personnel, whatever concessions they were giving you that were saving you money disappear, the quality of service you get starts going down, and you have to move to re-gain any advantage.
Thanks, Donald On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Spencer Dawkins <[email protected]>wrote: > > I know you meant it in jest, but to be clear to everyone else, qualifying >>> a new venue is a lot of work. >>> >> >> One point raised during the plenary is that we might be able to save >> money if we regularly return to a given venue. Is it possible to >> quantify those savings based on experience in, say, Minneapolis? >> > > My understanding is that Minneapolis kind of fell off the truck due to > problems with IETF attendees getting US visas, and not because of other > considerations. We've met there a lot in the past 10 or so years. People > complained, but not in ways that prevented us from meeting there repeatedly. > > So if we were going to quantify savings based on return visits, could I > suggest that we pick another place to quantify (perhaps "Vancouver" - we've > been there a couple of times lately, and I happen to be sitting in a hotel > right now - but anyplace outside the US would work for the concern I was > raising). > > Spencer > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf >
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