Larry after Jeff and others:
 
>> We're not welcome anymore?  Or CSY has been reduced to
>> a couple of broom closets?
>>
>I think Bruce actually has the correct answer.  At HP Cupertino
>it is very difficult to find large rooms, especially as large
>as the one we used for the Prop3000 session.  Additionally,
>the rooms are harder to reserve (lot's of meetings going on, I
>guess).  Anyway, I can assure you that HP-CSY is *not* trying
>to get IPROF away from us.  Several of us, including myself,
>would love to have it here.  I don't know if there's a closer
>place with big enough rooms (or enough for 3 or more sessions),
>but the biggest room that is reasonable available to us, as far
>as I can tell, is the Maple, which only holds 100.
 
It's probably a moot point now, but just for the record:
 
My idea for being able to hold a larger IPROF at HP was to
use the 300-seat Oak Room for big sessions, and the cluster
of smaller rooms at the Bldg 46 Customer Visit Center (CVC)
for the smaller SIGs.  To avoid the untenable problem of
having customers wander from one end of the complex to
the other through the labs, the idea was to stay at the Oak
Room end all day for one or more days for the big SIGs.
 
The occasional person who might want to go from one end to
the other during the day would have to walk or drive around
by themselves;  *absolutely* no walking from one to the other
inside (for those who may never have been to the HP -
Cupertino site, it is a *big* complex;  it's a long ways from the
Oak Room end to the CVC end).
 
.........  Since as I say probably a moot point because of other
considerations, I'm not going to rehash the other details now.....
 
Ken Sletten