Re: NANOG 90 Attendance?

[Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>]

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 () 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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> 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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