Re: Early bird special for COMMON - COMMON Housing

[Phil Groschwitz <sublime78ska@xxxxxxxxx>]

Can you find out where the common conferences are
going to be for the next 2 years or so?

Do they pretty much rotate around to the same cities?

Phil

--- Steve McKay <Steve.McKay@SouthTrust.com> wrote:
>
> A. Ports wrote -
> "Compared to other non profit/volenteer conferences
> you are expensive ."
>
> To what non profit/volunteer AS/400/iSeries
> conferences do you refer?
>
> "Common should be able to  review their records and
> determine how
> attendance is tracking against conference fees and
> accommodation prices"
>
> Easy to say, hard to do . . . for instance, suppose
> COMMON looked at
> conference fees/accomodation prices/attendance for
> the fall conference in
> Minneapolis . . . how does one determine what effect
> 9/11 had on
> attendance?  Yes, you can look at how many
> cancellations occurred after
> 9/11 but you are only inferring that the events of
> 9/11 caused the
> cancellations.  How would one determine how many
> reservations were never
> made due to 9/11?  Granted that most conferences are
> not preceded by a
> tragedy such as WTC/Pentagon/PA, but there *are*
> other factors to consider
> other than strictly cost vs. attendance.
>
> "Today's four day conferences have many people
> leaving early on day four as
> they did on day five.  This is a very normal
> happening for the last day of
> most conferences."
>
> I don't deny this but the attendee could more easily
> justify leaving early
> on Friday since the conference only ran until noon
> than he/she could
> justify leaving early on Thursday when the last
> session ends at 7:45 PM.
> BTW, even though the conference only ran through
> noon on Friday, COMMON has
> to pay the convention center for the whole day!
> (But you knew that . . .)
>
> Steve
>
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