FC: CFP report #2: A slow start, plague of problems

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,42238,00.html
   
   Hail to Privacy at Confab
   by Declan McCullagh (declan () wired com)
   2:00 a.m. Mar. 7, 2001 PST
   
   CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts -- This week's Computers, Freedom and Privacy
   conference seems almost fated not to succeed.
   
   The annual gathering of the privacy digerati has been plagued by
   everything from a hotel under construction to poor management and a
   nor'easter that may be the worst storm the area has experienced in
   decades.

   Blizzard conditions and high winds have snarled air traffic in the
   northeastern United States, closing airports, frustrating motorists,
   and preventing hundreds of would-be CFPers from showing up in time for
   the tutorials scheduled for Tuesday.
   
   In response, conference chair Deborah Hurley rescheduled Tuesday's
   events for later this week and organized an informal, impromptu
   discussion instead.
   
   The surprising thing: It worked.

   [...]



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