> Was really bummed not to be able to make IWP9 this year. A note to > whoever is considering hosting the next one -- it would be really cool > for us corporate types if we could move it into the first two quarters > of the year as its usually around July that our travel budgets get > slashed. I think it would even be worth skipping a year so we could > move it earlier if that was necessary. Co-location with a major > conference (USENIX, OSDI, SOSP, etc.) would be nice too, but since > that would probably bump the costs for folks it may be less desirable. > > -eric
Putting in a request for somewhere in the Northeast U.S. next year, if people are willing to accept the weather. I'd offer to host it here in Rochester (at RIT, I think they'd go for it) but the conditions can be expected to be similar to Murray Hill's from IWP9 2007. John