Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mtxinu!ed From: ed@mtxinu.COM (Ed Gould) Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix Subject: Re: Why not pick *nice* places for the Usenix conventions? Message-ID: <1991Jun26.044708.12397@mtxinu.COM> Date: 26 Jun 91 04:47:08 GMT References: <1991Jun22.192721.11468@ircam.fr> <1991Jun23.115443.484@ircam.fr> <876@taniwha.UUCP> Reply-To: ed@mtxinu.com (Ed Gould) Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley Lines: 25 >Actually, seriously, talking about really nice places to hold Usenix, >how about Portland again? - I think I enjoyed that one the most. Everyone I've talked to liked Portland. Judy DesHarnais, our conference coordinator, looked into holding the Summer '95 or '96 meeting there. The problem is that we've outgrown the facilities that we used last time, and the new larger facilities there are logistically inconvenient. In particular, the convention center where we'd have to hold the meetings is on the other side of the river from the hotels. Transportation, in addition to being expensive (if we charter busses), would make a major impact on the gestalt of the conference. More, I expect, than even the Opryland Hotel did. There are lots of considerations that go into selecting a site. Judy is very good at finding places that can accomodate us. Not all of them are interesting. We're trying to go back to the interesting ones more often, but there's considerable interest among the membership in moving the conferences around the country. -- Ed Gould No longer formally affiliated with, ed@mtxinu.COM and certainly not speaking for, mt Xinu. "I'll fight them as a woman, not a lady. I'll fight them as an engineer."