USENIX Conference Hotel

[Al Filipski]

I sent the following to the USENIX office.  What do you think?

> I just returned from the Winter USENIX conference in Dallas.  Although
> the organizers are to be congratulated for putting on a smooth-running
> conference with such a large group, I have one suggestion to make:
> It does not seem quite appropriate to hold the USENIX conference at a
> five-star downtown hotel where single rooms are $100 a night and parking 
> and food are also rather expensive.  I heard grumbling from a number of
> people at the conference about this. There appear to be many USENIX 
> members who are students and pay their own way at these conferences.  
> Holding it at a cheaper hotel with a more suitable level of amenities (coke 
> machines in the halls instead of shoe polishing machines in the rooms) would, 
> in my opinion, serve the members better. There must be (possibly suburban) 
> hotels with large conference rooms, free parking,  and room rates one-half to 
> two-thirds those of the Dallas Fairmont. (The Austin Marriott, for example,
> at which I recently attended a regional ACM conference).
> Again, I think the organizers did a very good job, but perhaps 
> a slightly less expensive class of hotel would be more appropriate.

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Alan Filipski, UNIX group, Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ U.S.A
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