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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: Suggestion on USENIX scheduling
Message-ID: <10486@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 88 22:36:27 GMT
References: <2548@emory.uucp> <3148@mtgzy.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <3148@mtgzy.UUCP> ecl@mtgzy.UUCP (Evelyn C. Leeper) writes:
>Ken Mandelberg suggests that Usenix run Wednesday through Saturday rather than
>Tuesday through Friday.  [various objections deleted]

>Perhaps having the tutorials on Wednesday and Saturday, with the main sessions
>not changed, would satisfy the most people.  On the other hand, those who stand
>in the middle of the road get hit by trucks coming from both directions.

(indeed!)

Speaking from a mostly-outsider-but-having-heard-some-things point
of view, I note that this argument (as well as the one-vs-two-vs-n-tracks)
apparently occurs during the scheduling of *every* USENIX, and in
the end the arguers wind up agreeing that the current situation is
best.  Unless something unusual happens, I doubt the scheduling
will change until USENIX grows large enough that the conference
itself changes from one to two weeks.  (When that may occur I dare
not guess.)
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