And another one ... (but a view from the commercial world!)
I'd find it very hard to justify, to my bosses, my going to any general conference like WCC. Things have to be targeted.
Maybe there might be some benefit from running a number of well-targeted conferences in parallel but much thought would have to be given to how to extract that benefit.
Regards
Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Harry Rudin [mailto:hrudin@smile.ch] Sent: 16 September 2004 16:59 To: Guy Leduc Cc: putxi@uib.es; ifip-tc6@informatik.rwth-aachen.de Subject: Re: [ifip-tc6] WCC 2006
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).
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