Re: COMMON in San Antonio (fwd)

[Mark Lazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Dean,

>GREAT idea!  This was where I personally hoped COMMON was heading when they
>started providing the electronic schedule.  No more classes with 50 handouts
>and 500 attendees.  No more classes scheduled for rooms supporting 50 people
>that then move to support the 500 that show up.  Just a way to get a rough
>idea of what to expect -- response samples then could be weighed against
>actual attendance in order to extrapolate more accurate attendance estimates.

 I agree w/ this one.

>Speaking of hand-outs, why not place them on the OPPOSITE side of the room
>and not pass them out until the session manager begins to speak?  This would
>discourage the "snarfers" and not distract from the session at all...

 I strongly disagree w/ this one.  "Snarfers" have just as much right as
full attendees to obtain a printout.  I think that there s/b a base number
of copies initially and then the ability to print (yes, print, not copy)
additional copies on demand.

 -mark

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