Re: Congrads John Earl!

["Paul Nelson" <pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Ken, except that I think the cities should be Anaheim, San
Antonio, and Atlanta. Those venues have seemed to work well in the past. The
lower attendance counts make these even more feasible.

Paul Nelson
Arbor Solutions, Inc.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Graap, Ken" <keg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 1:24 PM
Subject: FW: Congrads John Earl!


> >Note to everyone:  Please keep asking, poking, prodding and demanding
from
> >Me and from COMMON.  We need to know what is important, and what the
value
> >of COMMON is perceived to be.
>
>
> I recommend that Common come up with 5 or so hotels in cities like Las
> Vegas, Minneapolis, LA, Nashville, Cincinnati, Kansas City to name a few
> possibilities... Cities with good conference facilities but more
reasonable
> hotel / travel costs. Maybe focus on Midwest locations to reduce the "time
> zone" affects of travel.
>
> Then just rotate among these few locations. Hotels might provide better
> rates if they know that Common would be returning to their facilities
every
> couple of years...
>
> Then again ... Do you know what percentage of attendees come to a
conference
> based on the "Disneyland" type of attractions? Is the draw... what to do
> outside the conference or what to do within the conference?
>
> Personally I go for the "inside stuff". If I want to play, I use my trip
to
> Common as a jumping off spot to a place I really want to go to and spend
the
> following weekend there. For example, I went to Indy, enjoyed the
conference
> and then flew from Indy to Pensacola to visit friends and family, returned
> to Indy and flew home the following Monday using the second 1/2 of my
ticket
> to the conference... Worked great for me!
>
> That's my 2 cents worth....
>
> Kenneth
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Earl [mailto:john.earl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 10:25 AM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Subject: RE: Congrads John Earl!
>
>
>
> jte
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