Re: PHOTO-3D digest 1274

[P3D Alexa Smith <arws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> One disadvantage for a non-summer date is that probably some people
> (like those of us in academia) would have a more difficult time
> getting away from work. On the other hand, I would not mind a 
> convention in Jan/Feb/Mar somewhere WARM! But if you were to use
> Orlando or Anaheim, you are talking big bucks!
> 
> For many years, the ACM Computer Science Convention (SIGCSE) was held
> in the coldest part of the USA during the coldest part of the winter.
> I could never find out for sure, but I suspected that at least part
> of the reason was the availability of cheap convention facilities (for
> example, I once went to one in Indianapolis in Feb - it was -30 degrees
> F. wind chill factor walking the 4 blocks to the convention center :-).

I go to the annual SIGGRAPH (ACM computer graphics) convention every year and it
is held in the hottest city in the hottest month (i.e. Las Vegas, Orlando, New 
Orleans this year, etc.) and I have always assumed too that it is a cheap time 
for renting the convention facilities and not that someone was laughing 
somewhere watching us trudge around in the heat ;)
Alexa



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