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Re: Any firm plans for another Bakeoff?
[wearing my hat of a long-time individual on the bakeoff
steering committee]
A word of caution: it *is* only February.
Having watched the CalBUG folks sweat the registration
numbers, etc., at the past several bakeoffs: you'd be surprised
at how many companies (even big ones) don't decide, or get
their act together, until close to the last minute. A lot of
times it's a function of product schedules and availability
of engineers.
[It gets especially stressful if the hotel is demanding that
a certain number of rooms are booked as a condition of
getting their ballroom, etc., for a week. This forces CalBUG
to set aside several thousand dollars to pay the hotel in
case the bookings aren't met. So far we've always made
it, but it's a nail-biter until the last minute.]
Holding it overseas will probably force decisions to be
made sooner. But given past history, it's probably still
too early to get anything that's accurate.
thx - C
At 09:30 AM 2/21/2001, jhwilson@austin.ibm.com wrote:
>Are other companies planning on going? (Please respond if
>you plan on going) What is the
>expected attendance? Is there a web site with
>the location and hotel information?
>
>Jackie
>On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 05:43:22PM +0200, Jari Arkko wrote:
> >
> > >We are trying to do some planning for travel expenses,
> > >and there was some discussion on the Mailing list
> > >about a bakeoff in Finland. Is this going to happen?
> >
> > We plan to hold a Bakeoff near Helsinki,
> > Finland in August 13th - 18th, 2001. The time
> > is the week following the IETF meeting in
> > London.
> >
> > We have reservations for hotels and the location
> > itself but as of now there are no further details
> > available, and registration isn't yet possible.
> > If you plan to make flight reservations then
> > here are the times at least. You'll find direct
> > flights to Helsinki from e.g. London and New York.
> > If you don't come directly from the IETF then a
> > good time to fly in is sunday evening or monday
> > morning; monday is the set-up day.
> >
> > Jari Arkko, Ericsson
> > Tero Kivinen, SSH
> > Jukka Virtanen, Nokia
> >
>
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Cheryl Madson
Strategic Cryptographic Development; Systems & Solutions Engineering
Cisco Systems, Inc.
cmadson@cisco.com
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