Yup. Post pandemic, the unfortunate hotel situation, and a non-zero number of companies still have tight travel budgets.
It's been slowly creeping back though. On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 8:44 AM Ryan Hamel <r...@rkhtech.org> wrote: > Mike, > > The numbers have not bounced back to pre-pandemic levels, and it doesn't > help that NANOG 90 has had some hotel issues. > > Ryan > > ------------------------------ > *From:* NANOG <nanog-bounces+ryan=rkhtech....@nanog.org> on behalf of > Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> > *Sent:* Sunday, February 11, 2024 5:31:02 AM > *To:* nanog <nanog@nanog.org> > *Subject:* NANOG 90 Attendance? > > Caution: This is an external email and may be malicious. Please take care > when clicking links or opening attachments. > > I haven't been to a NANOG meeting in a while. While going through the > attendee list for NANOG 90 to try to book meetings with people, I noticed a > lack of (or extremely minimal) attendance by several organizations that > have traditionally had several employees attend. I've also noticed that > some organizations I had an interest in were only sending sales people, not > technical people. > > How long has this been a thing? I remember when I attended years ago that > there simply wasn't enough time to meet with technical people from all of > the organizations I wanted to meet with. Now the calendar is looking a bit > dry. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > Midwest-IX > http://www.midwest-ix.com > >
