Re: Congrads John Earl!

PS: In the list of inexpensive conferences, you could also add TUG TEC.
Conference ~ $500 US
Room Rates ~ $100 US (at the Sheraton)

Paul,

you need to stay south of the Mason-Dixon and east of the MS river...with
the exception of perhaps San Antonio (which is a pain on last/late
flights).

ALso, Anaheim was expensive dude.



On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Paul Nelson wrote:

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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708-923-7354 Home
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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!

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