Re: [AGA-sc] Ouch

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

--- Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@wilstream.com> wrote:

> If the vendors had had a concrete idea of the schedule
> earlier, they could 
> have made different flight arrangements and wouldn't have
> missed peak time. 
> There *were* enough breaks in the schedule for people to
> visit the room, 
> but the vendors didn't know when they were far enough in
> advance. And then 
> the talks started late and ran late. What with the
> weather in Atlanta and 
> flights being delayed, I felt like I was late for four
> days straight! :-)


Yes. I think this points to a general problem of a little
short in a lot of ways that added up to more headaches than
necessary. The probs were obvious to some convention
attendees I spoke to and others just had a grand old time.
I can't wait to see survey results.

> 
> As another example, I didn't know about Ghazanfar's party
> until the week 
> before. Re-arranging my flight was a hassle I could have
> done without.


I think you knew about it as soon as he did ;-)

> -Auction database going down-why is this their fault? Who
> knew?

Absolute foolishness on their part, imo. Indeed, I'd call
it folly, i.e., foolishness despite repeated advice and
warning about the foolishness. They didn't test drive the
set up or the software -- that's just plain dumb, imo. It
wasn't, as I understand it, a tried and true system but
something new at PVAS that GWAPA borrowed but had not used
before.

We don't know if the crash lost transactions. It might have
merely cost some precious time, or it might have costs lots
of money in lost transactions. And I'm not confident that
Ivo will bother to figure out whether it did or not.

sh
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