Re: Making IETF happening in different regions

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu>]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Keith Moore wrote:

> > Except of course that many of the "US Sponsors" are in fact global 
> > companies anyway. Think about the list of recent and future sponsors.
>
> sure, but the sponsors get some leeway in where meetings are held (since 
> we're more likely to hold a meeting in an area where someone is willing to 
> sponsor it), and one of the factors in a sponsor's decision is probably cost. 
> so if we say to our potential sponsors, "sure you can host a meeting in city 
> X, but you're going to have to pay for it as if it were in city Y", somehow 
> that doesn't seem likely to fly.

Bear in mind that potential sponsors like to host meetings where they 
actually have local presence. Having people on the ground for months 
before a meeting is a way better recipe for success then stagging it 
somewhere else and installing it on friday before the meeting started.

If you liked the network for this meeting bear in mind that the people 
putting it together have been working on it since like october.

joelja

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