How about a west coast regional 2 or 3 day WISPA cruise???? like SF to LA , or just Long Beach to Catalina
-----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Forbes Mercy Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 11:44 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] What are the Challenges? Robert, Are you on the Promotion Committee? These are all important inputs we need when we make decisions, it wasn't the board who decided, they followed the recommendations of the Promotion Committee. We have no intention of having another summer show, we have learned a lot in this our first show and that's one of them. You can join at http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/Promotion If you don't have the time that's fine it's a dent in my summer schedule too and I'm not just going for the two days, but no incentive I think not, there is a lot of benefit going to this meeting. I'm not sure asking what concerns there were was necessary unless to help people who needed help coming but to rehash minority views in a well documented series of surveys, webinars, and question/answer opportunities isn't productive, I hope to see you up front at our next attempt at this ongoing series. Thanks, Forbes Promotion Committee Chair On 6/27/2010 9:41 PM, Robert West wrote: > " We originally picked St. Louis" > > With total and absolute respect for the board, we had an online discussion > of where and why among all of us and St. Louis really wasn't in the mix. > The timing is also "weird" because the summer, at least for me, is the > busiest because the weather is damn best for fixing everything and getting > new AP's installed. I'm working like hell to beat the snow. (Just got in > from a new AP install) > > Get me in mid-January and I'll have plenty of time. Look at the volume of > list postings and you'll understand. The winter gives us all lots of time > to list post thus empty time in our schedules. Graph it out, you'll > understand. Yeah, travel in the winter sucks............. But I got's the > time then! > > Besides............... St. Louis? > > I went to the Dayton Hamvention, met some WISPA members, saw some great > "junk" and spent some cash. Not to push Dayton (Dayton blows) but as we > talked about before, a hook up with another similar event is the cool thing > for me. No matter where it is. I really don't care where but the > Hamvention is well known by a lot of WISPA Hams. > > Anyhow, just no time and no incentive in going. Ticket price and hotel > price have no bearing on my lack of attending. > > Anyone with similar issues??? > > Bob- > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of Rick Harnish > Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 3:28 PM > To: memb...@wispa.org; 'WISPA General List' > Subject: [WISPA] What are the Challenges? > > Members and WISP followers, > > > > We would like to better understand some of the challenges that many of you > face on a daily basis as we continue to fine tune the Regional Meeting > Agenda. As you know the 1st Regional Meeting is scheduled for July 21st and > 22nd in St. Louis. We have been pleasantly surprised at the response we have > received from vendors in our industry in committing to exhibit at our > Regional Meeting. > > > > One thing we have noticed during the signup period is that many WISPs that > are attending are traveling long distances to come to St. Louis in the first > stages of signup. We originally picked St. Louis because of its central > location in the US and because there are a tremendous amount of WISP > companies throughout the Central US. We really anticipated that 70% of our > attendees at this meeting would come from a 500 mile radius from St. Louis. > This does not seem to be the case and we find ourselves wondering why this > to be the case. > > > > My first inclination is to blame it on weather. I realize that weather in > the Central US has been extremely volatile this summer with persistent > storms continually moving across the region. I am asking if this is really > the reason preventing many Midwestern WISPs from signing up for this meeting > or not. If it is something else, I would like to investigate further. We > believe it is our obligation to the Vendors who have committed staff, money > and resources to attend the meeting, that we ask these tough questions. > > > > Our goal and the budget for the RM are based on a count of 200 attendees. We > are pretty sure we will reach this goal but if we are not going to get > there, we need to start preparing now. As you may or may not know, we do > have a price increase of $50 per attendee beginning on July 1st. It would > be silly of me not to point this out to any prospective attendees. > > > > This week, we were able to negotiate a much nicer hotel and meeting > facilities at the Renaissance Hotel in St. Louis. The Renaissance actually > lowered its room rate surprisingly to $79 per night and threw in free > internet, parking and shuttle. These concessions are saving our > participants nearly $60 from the previous hotel. The catering and AV > budgets alone exceed the registration fees we are charging for members. > > > > Therefore, I ask that everyone describe your intentions for attending or not > intending and send a brief description why. If it is summer vacation, that > is fine, that is a risk we took when choosing these dates. If it is summer > activities such as 4H fairs, baseball tournaments, or whatever, just let me > know. If it is the weather and damage has not allowed you to book because > of excessive repair bills, that is also fine. I am just trying to get a > feel on the pulse of the industry as we analyze the success of this meeting > and possibly plan the next one. > > > > If there are other challenges you wish to discuss, let me know. I would > rather the Board be aware so that we can formulate policy and programs to > alleviate these concerns as we move forward. > > > > Respectfully, > > > > Rick Harnish > > President > > WISPA > > 260-307-4000 cell > > 866-317-2851 WISPA Office > > Skype: rick.harnish. > > rharn...@wispa.org > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > WISPA Wants You! 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