Re: COMMON Conference locations.

Atlanta is a wonderful and cheap city. large and green, cheap and
friendly..... ahhhh   Atlanta!
As Always,
Robert G. Owens
owensr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Programmer/Systems Admin.
Concord Fabrics, Inc

                    "nec scire fas est Omnia"
               it is not Gods will, We should know all
                           -----Horace-------

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <JOberholtzer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 12:00 PM
Subject: COMMON Conference locations.


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> So, anyway, now that COMMON attendance is down, I wonder if it would be
> possible to have COMMON in an interesting location. Orlando and Anaheim
> have to be two of the blandest cities around. NOLA is always
> interesting, but it's old hat. Miami may be interesting though.
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> OK, this is a question that the COMMON board and many of the rest of us
> have been struggling with.
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> Definition:  Destination City:  A city that has several thousand hotel
> rooms within reasonable walking distance of a massive convention center,
> IE:  Las Vegas, Orlando, New Orleans, San Francisco, Boston, New York,
> Chicago etc..  These cities have a significant draw, but are expensive to
> stay in.
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> We now have come to an attendance level at COMMON where many cities
outside
> of the "Destination Cities" criteria that has been used in the past to
> determine where to go is no longer valid.  We don't need as many meeting
> rooms and hotel rooms as we used to, so cities like (duck and run)
> Milwaukee, WI, Grand Rapids, MI, and many others can now support COMMON
> where once before they could not.  Even the NAACP is in Milwaukee this
> week.
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> So, the question is:  Where should we look to put the conferences in the
> near future?  The contracts for the convention centers do not run out as
> far as they used to, so there is some flexibility in planning.
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> Please speak up.  Contact me privately if you do not want to use the list.
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> BTW:  if you are a COMMON member, and have not yet voted in the COMMON
> board election, please do so.  The end of the voting is tomorrow.
> There are five candidates for the board: myself, Larry Bolhuis, Beverly
> Russell,  Bruce Collins, and Leo Lefebvre.  Please vote for three.
>
> Jim Oberholtzer
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