Re: *STRAW POLL* - LISA and location...

[Unix Systems Catherd <krishna.mitre.org">greg]

>The SAGE Board will be discussing issues related to the LISA conference (including
>location) in the next several months, and we'd appreciate your input on the
>following questions:
>
  Okey-doke. :)

>1) Do you attend LISA or plan to in the next two years?  _X_ yes  __no
>
>2) What factor is/would be *the most important* in your decision to attend LISA?
>	__ technical program
>	__ tutorial offerings
>	__ invited talks/other track at meeting
>	__ meet other sysadmins
>	_X_ location of conference     (*see note at bottom*)
>	__ cost of hotel
>	__ other (please specify)
>
>3) How does location of the conference affect your decision?
>	__ more likely to go to West Coast LISA
>	_X_ more likely to go to East Coast LISA
>	__ more likely to go to mid-West LISA (e.g. Chicago)
>	__ really don't care at all
>
>4) Is cost of the rooms at conference hotels an issue for you?
>	_X_ yes, but I'll find a way
>	__ yes, it prevents me from attending
>	__ no (but cheaper is better)
>	__ I never notice
>
>5) Is any particular time between late September and early November
>  (historically, the range of LISA dates) consistently bad for you?
>
  October 16 and 17 are _bad_ for me. I have a child's birthday on each day. :)


*  I do request that we _try_ to schedule LISA further east than the west slopes of the
Rocky Mt. escarpment for a few years. :) Those of us who work out here on the East Coast
and are dependent on parsimonious management for USENIX attendance just aren't going to
make it to LISA very often. For me, attendance at LISA or USENIX is a given; I will come
regardless of the program. For my management, co$t i$ everything - especially since we
ssystems people are support, hence overhead, and therefore not any more important to the
success of the company than janitors. And we just laid off all our janitors. Bitter? Yep,
I'm a little bitter. 
  Of course, if they paid me better, I'd attend LISA on my own dime. Then I'd probably not
care. I'd still want to see other parts of the US than California, though.
	Greg Koolbeck
"You answer the SAGE survey, Joel. I'm bitter."


>
>Thanks!  We'll have other questions as time goes on...  Please do respond
>to the survey - every opinion point counts!  Send responses to
>pawusenix.org (and I apologive in advance for any vacation message you
>might see - I'm off to Usenix tomorrow).
>

 :P Since I got to go to USENIX in January, I can't go to the closer one this summer. Wheee.

>Pat Wilson
>Member, SAGE Board of Directors
>pawusenix.org

   I'll do my best to answer them.
	Greg
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