RE: Meeting room size estimation

[Tony Hain <tonyhain at microsoft.com>]

David Morris wrote:
>You are making the suggestion too hard ... though it might also feed
>the scheduling process ... all that is needed to make rooms large enough
>is to know how many folks who would attend if there were no conflicts.
>Conflicts would reduce the size.

You assume the hotel has an infinite supply of large rooms. It used to be
that when a group exceeded its estimated size there was a room swap in real
time. That doesn't happen now because there aren't any under-capacity rooms
to swap with. Unless the location choices are restricted to areas with very
large hotels, the only way to avoid moving to a convention center would be
booking hotel pairs with the meetings spread between them.

>Of course, artful creation of conflicts could also reduce room size
>requirements ;-:)

This occurred to me as well, and what ever process might be used would have
to be totally automated to prevent any accusation that the secretariat
created specific conflicts. I trust they would not go out of their way to do
such, but some members of the community seem to be paranoid.  

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