Being someone that is very much in favour of trying some new things - up to and including of the fact that some of it is sure to be less successful than others, I can see what you mean.
But I also believe that the capacity for change is out there.
The obstacles of getting through the 'but its tradition' and 'you can't do that because it didn't work last time' or 'you'll alienate everyone who currently goes'
I dont' think any of those things is any reason to not try something - and while the result may not work, it may also be a wild success.
I am hopeful of the idea that we are doing when we get dates from someone - heard from them lately?
As far as conventions in Perth go, they need to change to either be the kind of conference that can afford to utilise hotels properly, and the kind of conference that hotels /want/ OR they need to NOT be in a hotel. That's the biggest change I forsee over the next x amount of years - depending on opposition.
There's this myth that things should be cheaper function wise in Perth, and it's just blatently untrue. The hotels have the monopoly on what little function space is available across Perth for everyone to use for all the reasons people want function space. They can run things the way they like, at a price that suits them - and they do. They all almost have come to run the same way wanting a certain amount of guaranteed revenue in the $$ figure that would make you blanch at the very least.
At least in Perth it's got to be Change or Die really.
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Date: 2007-10-24 10:53 am (UTC)But I also believe that the capacity for change is out there.
The obstacles of getting through the 'but its tradition' and 'you can't do that because it didn't work last time' or 'you'll alienate everyone who currently goes'
I dont' think any of those things is any reason to not try something - and while the result may not work, it may also be a wild success.
I am hopeful of the idea that we are doing when we get dates from someone - heard from them lately?
As far as conventions in Perth go, they need to change to either be the kind of conference that can afford to utilise hotels properly, and the kind of conference that hotels /want/ OR they need to NOT be in a hotel. That's the biggest change I forsee over the next x amount of years - depending on opposition.
There's this myth that things should be cheaper function wise in Perth, and it's just blatently untrue. The hotels have the monopoly on what little function space is available across Perth for everyone to use for all the reasons people want function space. They can run things the way they like, at a price that suits them - and they do. They all almost have come to run the same way wanting a certain amount of guaranteed revenue in the $$ figure that would make you blanch at the very least.
At least in Perth it's got to be Change or Die really.