Aduke.1860
net.general
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!dbl
Tue Mar  9 14:54:20 1982
joint Usenix - /usr/group meeting
    I agree with Armando(decvax!aps) that a joint /usr/group and Usenix
meeting is inadvisable, at least for the Boston meeting. Rooms and meeting
space are going to be very limited there anyway, even without the addition
of /usr/group.
    There WAS discussion of this matter at the open board meeting at the
Santa Monica conference. This meeting was very lightly attended and had
almost no technical types due to a conflict with the 4.1bsd BOF. I don't
know whether this was intentional (I doubt it), but it certainly did skew
the representation at the board meeting. I attended only because several
others in my group were covering the 4.1BOF. No further mention was made of
the matter during the conference.
    I got the feeling that the decision was already pretty much made by the
board at that point (they were to meet with and/or talk with the /usr/group
board the next day), and that they were looking for a rubber stamp from
those at the open board meeting. They certainly got it, since most attending
were vendors or vendor reps.
    For later conferences, I think the idea of a joint meeting might be a
nice experiment, especially if, as mcnc!jte suggests, they were to have
overlapping sessions of technical talks and vendor presentations. There
would be more time for technical presentations this way, and we could avoid
those boring (most of them, at least) vendor presentations that the board
(and others) have felt it was necessary to provide time for as part of the
general conference schedule, attending only those of specific interest to
us.
                                       David Leonard (duke!dbl)

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