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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