Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!uwvax!umn-d-ub!umn-cs!mmm!schultz From: schultz@mmm.UUCP (John C Schultz) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: planning for 3rd Annual X Technical Conference Message-ID: <913@mmm.UUCP> Date: 2 Jul 88 20:25:27 GMT References: <10276@oberon.USC.EDU> <8807011417.AA01033@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU> Reply-To: schultz@mmm.UUCP (John C Schultz) Organization: 3M Company - ES&T; St. Paul, MN Lines: 32 In article <8807011417.AA01033@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU> jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton) writes: > >> Sorry to agree with the original poster, but while we sent 4 people to >> the last MIT X conference, we will send 0 people to the next one if it is >> held again in January. Reason: the weather. > >The technical presentations took place on two of the coldest days seen here in >over a decade. The beginning of that week was actually quite pleasant. >Furthermore, there are a lot of people who think that Boston's weather is >fairly wimpy. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You get used to cold weather just like you can get used to hot weather - personnel preference. My preference is that I can add enough clothes to survive outside in -10F weather but I have a hard time surviving in +100 with 90% humidity. (My skin is not removable.) In any case I think the weather issue is beside the point, I try to attend conferences for the technical content. Such sessions are generally held indoors where the temperature is held reasonably close to ideal regardless of the outside temperature or lack thereof. If MIT can put the conference on at low cost at MIT, this would seem to be a better approach than arranging rather expensive accomadations and conference rooms at a remote location with comparaativly little in the way of on-site support. If you want to go on a vacation, contact a travel bureau. -- john c. schultz schultz@mmm.UUCP (612) 733-4047 3M Center, Bldg 518-1-1, St. Paul, MN 55144-1000 The opinions expressed herein are, as always, my own and not 3M's.