I guess I'm not aware of the hotel situation. I saw one was booked, the other was not.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Beecher" <[email protected]> To: "Ryan Hamel" <[email protected]> Cc: "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]>, "nanog" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2024 7:56:28 AM Subject: Re: NANOG 90 Attendance? 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 < [email protected] > 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= [email protected] > on behalf of Mike Hammett < [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2024 5:31:02 AM To: nanog < [email protected] > 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
