NANOG 90 Attendance?

Sun Feb 11 14:10:16 UTC 2024

I guess I'm not aware of the hotel situation. I saw one was booked, the other was not. 

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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
http://www.ics-il.com 

Midwest-IX 
http://www.midwest-ix.com 

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From: "Tom Beecher" <beecher at beecher.cc> 
To: "Ryan Hamel" <ryan at rkhtech.org> 
Cc: "Mike Hammett" <nanog at ics-il.net>, "nanog" <nanog at nanog.org> 
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 < ryan at 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 

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Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2024 5:31:02 AM 
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Subject: NANOG 90 Attendance? 

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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. 

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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
http://www.ics-il.com 

Midwest-IX 
http://www.midwest-ix.com 

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