On Aug 12, 2014, at 6:24 PM, Melinda Shore
<melinda(_dot_)shore(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
The reason given for not returning to Minneapolis is that only the
core participants show up, and that cuts into much-needed conference
revenue, making us less self-sufficient.
Am I reading this correctly - we sometimes go to attractive
holiday destinations to pull in people who don't participate
much, as a way of underwriting meeting costs?
Say rather less unattractive destinations. I think we get better numbers in
Dallas than Minneapolis. I don't understand why--Minneapolis is one of my
favorite IETF destinations--but that's what Ray said during the Admin plenary a
couple of IETFs ago, and I see no reason to doubt him!
And it's not just meeting costs. There are a lot of costs to running IETF.