conference refreshments
Ed Gould
ed at mtxinu.COM
Wed Feb 22 08:58:34 AEST 1989
>I suggest that rather than reinvent the wheel -- there's an old cliche, eh? --
>the Usenix planning folks should talk to the DECUS Board and find out how all
>of this is handled at DECUS. DECUS has been handling 4000 -- 7000 people at
>conferences for a while now. The breaks work. The coffee is even pretty
>good. :-) But the point is, it all seems to work well.
I have to disagree. Having been to several DECUS incarnations, I haven't
found that the breaks really work any better than at Usenix. From my
experience, they're worse: I've *never* gotten to a coffee-between-
sessions break before the pastries were all gone. I've only sometimes
made it to a "continental breakfast" before a tutorial - even when I
was teaching - before the interesting stuff was gone.
The real answer to the problem of vanishing pastries is politeness! People
need to realize that there are a limited number of Danish available, and
that if the trays are full it's because the bulk of the attendees haven't
gotten out yet. Use a bit of restraint: take only one until others have had
their chance.
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