Three weeks
ago, I asked NZNOG subscribers who expect to attend to express
a preference for a conference with UniForum broadly similar to last
year's on one hand, or a lower-cost gathering hosted by The University
of Waikato. In counting votes, I have ignored those received from
UniForum members who are not subscribed to this list.
The envelope, please
...
Preferring UniForum:
16
Preferring Waikato:
13
Will
attend either, not worried: 6
Volunteering to
help: 3
I'm inclined to
conclude from this that we do not have a clear majority for either option, or
more positively that we have quite a bit of interest in
both.
The three
volunteering to help were two who favoured the UniForum option and one who would
attend either. Partly for that reason, partly in the interests of getting
an event under away sooner rather than later, and partly because it worked last
time, I believe we should proceed with the UniForum option.
It is also clear
that we have significant interest in an alternative, and I believe that should
be followed up, possibly for February 2004. One longer-term question would be
whether 2004 could support two events, one at Waikato and another jointly with
UniForum in the Wellington region.
Unless I hear
significant numbers of complaints soon, I'll seek to follow up who's doing what
with UniForum's convenor, Roger De Salis, and those who've volunteered; and
myself contact The University of Waikato with a view to working out some details
for a later conference. One of my aims here is to have decisions about the
conference after next made not later than during the next
conference.
- Donald
Neal