Re: Early bird special for COMMON - COMMON Housing

[Pete Massiello <pmassiello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Phil,

    Check out http://www.common.org/Conferences/conf_events.html

    Pete

Phil Groschwitz wrote:

>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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