Re: Promoting the IETF meetings

["Jeffrey I. Schiller" <jis@mit.edu>]

But do we really need more tourists as the way to solve this? We've 
kicked around the idea of having a tutorial associated with the IETF 
meeting (but I would want the "tourist" types to leave after the 
tutorial). I am sure we can brainstorm other ways to make money, and 
provide value to the community, without cluttering up our face to face 
meetings.

			-Jeff

Scott Bradner wrote:
> > It's not clear to me why it shouldn't, however. Surely a substantial
> > fraction of the secretariat's work is supporting the meetings and if
> > those meetings are smaller there should be less work.
>
> I think it makes almost no difference in terms of what the secretariat has
> to do if a meeting has 1000 or 2000 people - they basically have
> to order a different ammount of food - the work on the scheduling,
> rooms, hotel arangements, IESG/IAB breakfasts AV etc do not change
>
> they might hire a different number of temps for registration but
> I do not think that much else changes
>
> Scott

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