Harry, I fully agree with you. WCCs helped in the past to bridge the gap between East and West. I think that now is the time to find, in addition to "carefully targeted technical meetings" activities like WITFOR that can help to bridge the gap between North and South. Best regards ramon
It has long seemed to me that the WCC is fast becoming a dinosaur congress. When one past IFIP president wrote that it was the " most important thing that IFIP does", I had to protest.
I humbly suggest that TC6 suggest to the Powers That Be that the days of WCC are past and that IFIP's exposure is much greater than any conceivable gain.
Sorry to be so negative but our smaller, carefully targeted technical meetings are much more attractive in this day and age. Well, just one person's opinion. A good topic for the next TC6 meeting.
with best regards all around, Harry
Guy Leduc wrote:
Dear Ramon,
Thanks for the interesting data, but who is going to pay the 220 kEUR this time?
Best regards, Guy
[Private joke] Please, advise the next WCC organizer to set the break even point more realistically (I would not bet above 500 participants next time).
========================================================================= Ramon Puigjaner Universitat de les Illes Balears Departament de Ciencies Matematiques i Informatica 07122 PALMA (Spain) Phone: +34-971173288 Fax: +34-971173003 e-mail: putxi@uib.es =========================================================================