Re: Did someone forget that the Northeast exists?

Paul,

 NY definitely makes it uncomfortable / expensive for conferences.  But NJ
has several conference centers that have easy access and no need to cross
the Hudson River.  For after hours entertainment, it's close enough to NY
City to be very accessible.

 I have yet to see NJ suggested as a possible venue location.

 -mark

As far as COMMON is concerned, New York definitely did. Picture having to
unload the equipment from the 18 wheelers coming from Rochester and put it
onto shuttle trucks to bring it across the river from New Jersey.

Boston was also very expensive, both for labor crews and for hotel space.
The conferences there had to be held either before or after baseball
season.

Baltimore was OK, but the panhandlers were all over the place.

Buffalo isn't fancy enough for the event planners. Besides, you can't get
there from here.

I don't think Philly has the right mix of meeting space and sleeping rooms

Pittsburgh? See Buffalo, unless one wants to fly on U.S. Scare, formerly
known as Crashagheny
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Re: Did someone forget that the Northeast exists?






Cold,expensive,crowded and whatever else you can say
about the northeast.

Nevada(Vegas) is pushing hard for any convention I have
ever heard about.

Just about every town in america now has a "convention center"
and will do practically anything to get the business.

I was kidding about the northeast, but I really suspect that
the cities you mentioned have priced themselves out of the
convention business several years ago.




Mike Cunningham wrote:

Seems like all the major iSeries conferences have forgotten about us in
the Northeast (with limited travel budgets).  What's wrong with the New
York, Boston, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Baltimore areas

http://devcon.iseries400experts.com/

http://www-304.ibm.com/jct03001c/services/learning/ites.wss/us/en?pageType=page&c=a0000716

http://www.common.org/conferences/2007/annual/