On 8/13/2010 10:40 AM, Ole Jacobsen wrote:
Based on a sample of 3 (Hiroshima, Anaheim and Maastricht) I am not at
all sure your statement is factually correct. Tokyo would have been
better than Hiroshima and Amsterdam might have been better than
Maastricht and maybe "LA" (a big place) would have been better than
Anaheim, but to conclude that these locations "discourage one-day
attendance" I think is a stretch.
Well, since the target market isn't really specified and the criteria for
satisfying it aren't specified, what's really going on is a lot of private
models that probably don't match.
Getting some agreement at this level would permit more substantive
consideration, so here's an attempt to specify it:
A Day Pass is for attendees with a very narrow focus of activity in an IETF
meeting. The fee reduces the cost of their participation substantially, both in
terms of money and time.
Alternative criteria:
Local --
One kind of Day Pass user would be someone relatively local to the meeting
area. They should be able to travel to and from the meeting and attend it all on
the same day.
Regional --
Another kind of Day Pass user would permit a two-day trip, with one night
at the conference venue. Travel time and cost for a regional attendee is much
higher than for a Local attendee, but still far less expensive than a full
attendee.
In terms of Local attendees, for the 3 cited venues, only Anaheim is reasonable,
IMO. Maastrict and Hiroshima are too far away from significant centers of
IETF-related work to qualify.
I'm not sure whether Hiroshima would qualify for a Regional attendee, but assume
it would. So would the other 3 sites.
My comment had assumed a goal of Local attendees. Perhaps you intend Regional?
d/
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Dave CROCKER wrote:
An example of the problem with the day pass experiment is our tendency to be
at venues that discourage one-day attendance.
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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