Jeanette Nutsford wrote:
>

>
> a)   One SIG3000 meeting in 2001, in February, immediately after the
> Solutions Symposium, as it was this year. Advantage is that we will not have
> more than a year since the 2000 meeting. Disadvantage is that it will be
> close to another conference and we will have 20 months to the meeting in
> 2002.
>
> b)  One SIG3000 meeting in 2001, in late October/early November. Advantage
> is that it will provide a better spread of conferences through the year.
> Disadvantage is that it will be 20 months since the 2000 meeting and the
> SIG's need to discuss many issues with HP before then.
>
> c)   Two SIG3000 meetings in 2001, one in February and the second in late
> October/early November. Advantage is no two SIG3000 meetings will be more
> than 12 months apart thereby allowing the SIG's to work more frequently with
> HP. Disadvantage is that we will be asking SIG members to attend an extra
> meeting in 2001. We could end up with both meetings having small numbers
> attending which will lessen the benefit to the members and HP.

Jeanette, hello,

I vote for C above and will probably attend both.  However i am not
convinced
that January/February is still not a good time for 2002 EVEN if HPWorld
is in May.

Regards,

Nick