[nfb-talk] Convention in Orlando for 5 years

Jessica jessmonsilva2003 at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jul 11 01:03:34 UTC 2011 

If the rates are higher I honestly don't think more people will attend. Even if it is a city the convention has never been to before.

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On Jul 10, 2011, at 8:39 PM, "Brian Miller" <brian-r-miller at uiowa.edu> wrote:

> I have to humbly disagree about Portland... The singing organization  to
> which I belong, and which, unfortunatley, always has its big international
> convention around July 4, is going to Portland next year.  These conventions
> routinely draw 8-10,000 participants, with a headquarters hotel that is
> easily as intensively utilized as the NFB's is.  
> 
> Will the room rates be as cheap?  No.  Will the registration fees be as low
> as ours?  No, but they never are, no matter whether this organization is in
> Portland, or Kansas City (as it was this year).  In Two years the convention
> is in Toronto, and in 2018, Orlando... So, if NFB is there that year, I will
> get to experience a harmonic convergence of conventions for which I've
> prayed for 15 years and never thought would come to fruition.  
> 
> Brian M
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of T. Joseph Carter
> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 7:14 PM
> To: NFB Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Convention in Orlando for 5 years
> 
> Portland could not.  No hotel in the city can even approach housing that
> many.
> 
> Joseph
> 
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 01:59:45PM -0400, Brian Miller wrote:
>> Hi Mike,
>> 
>> So we will be in Orlando in 2018?
>> 
>> I seem to recall that our 1996 convention in Anaheim, the last one on 
>> the west coast, rivaled, but did not beat, our attendance in New 
>> Orleans in 1997.  And New Orleans, I believe, has not been beat for 
>> attendance in the
>> 14 years since we were there.
>> 
>> I have to believe that Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Salt 
>> Lake, and a half dozen other places could easily handle a convention 
>> the size of ours.  I have to think that it helps our bottom line to be 
>> on the east coast, or no more than a 2.5 hour flight from it, as we 
>> send a whole lot of people from Baltimore, which could make a west coast
> venture expensive.
>> 
>> Brian M
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
>> On Behalf Of Mike Freeman
>> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 12:44 PM
>> To: 'NFB Talk Mailing List'
>> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Convention in Orlando for 5 years
>> 
>> Ray:
>> 
>> That's also what I remember.
>> 
>> I don't remember who asked but the 2013 convention may not be at the 
>> Rosen Shingle Creek Resort but may be at one of the other rosen 
>> properties, as, for example, the rosen Center which was one of the 
>> overflow hotels. One of the contract terms for conventions at rosen 
>> properties is that Rosen Hotels gets to choose the venue from three (I 
>> believe) Rosen properties in the area.
>> 
>> I will forbear from entering extensively into the debate about where 
>> conventions should be held. In fact, I, too, wish conventions could be 
>> held in the West. For some of us, airfare tends to erase much of the 
>> savings we get with our wonderfully low hotel rates. However, as David 
>> Andrews has pointed out, when we were at hotels West of the 
>> Mississippi, we had much smaller attendance than we do now. We're too 
>> big for many of the hotels we used to use and not quite large enough 
>> for the megahotels that handle conventions of ten thousand or more. As 
>> Joseph Carter has pointed out, we face a Hobson's choice in trying to 
>> negotiate convention venues. And we're having to eat shuttle costs.
>> 
>> But even though cost of air travel to Orlando from Portland, Oregon, 
>> was outrageous, this was one of the best conventions I've been to in 
>> many, many years.
>> 
>> Mike Freeman
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
>> On Behalf Of Ray Foret Jr
>> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 9:08 AM
>> To: NFB Talk Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Convention in Orlando for 5 years
>> 
>> I believe the dead zone was on TMobile.
>> Sincerely,
>> The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
>> 
>> Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!
>> 
>> Skype name:
>> barefootedray
>> 
>> Facebook:
>> facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Jul 10, 2011, at 10:49 AM, Mike Freeman wrote:
>> 
>>> My AT&T phone worked everywhere I tried it.
>>> 
>>> Mike
>>> 
>>> On Jul 10, 2011, at 0:53, Ray Foret Jr <rforetjr at att.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Not to mention which, one of the dead zones just happens to be right 
>>>> at
>> the platform itself.  A rather embarrasing fact for one fellow who was 
>> going to give a demonstration of the Icon 18 or something.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
>>>> 
>>>> Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!
>>>> 
>>>> Skype name:
>>>> barefootedray
>>>> 
>>>> Facebook:
>>>> facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Jul 9, 2011, at 11:43 PM, T. Joseph Carter wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Yes, Mr. Rosen was REALLY impressed with the NFB, and Dr. Maurer 
>>>>> was
>> really impressed with the facility.  Hopefully the two of them can work 
>> something out to reduce the nickel-and-dime effects somewhat.  I 
>> certainly have no objection to the hotel making money-but the 
>> incidental fees are both too high and too frequent to be comfortable.  
>> There isn't even lobby wifi access without a fee, and the hotel is full of
> cellular dead zones.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Joseph
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 11:43:17PM -0400, Brian Miller wrote:
>>>>>> Did they say if it was to be at the same hotel all those years?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Brian M
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
>>>>>> [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sherri
>>>>>> Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 8:00 PM
>>>>>> To: NFB Talk Mailing List; blindtlk at nfbnet.org
>>>>>> Subject: [nfb-talk] Convention in Orlando for 5 years
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It was announced at the convention that conventions from 2013 
>>>>>> through 2017 will be held in Orlando. I wish we could extend the 
>>>>>> length of the convention back to how it was and NFB would organize
>> tours for Wednesday afternoon.
>>>>>> That way, people could get excited about Orlando and have time to 
>>>>>> go
>> places.
>>>>>> I liked the old schedule much better. If we are going to keep 
>>>>>> people here for five years in a row, we need to give them ample 
>>>>>> opportunity to take advantage of all there is to do in Orlando.
>>>>>> Besides, I like the banquet the night before the last day of
>> convention.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Sherri Brun
>>>>>> "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
>>>>>> John Lennon
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Check out http://www.raceforindependence.org/goto/Sherri.Brun
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> E-mail: flmom2006 at gmail.com
>>>>>> NFBF NewslineR chair
>>>>>> www.nfbnewsline.org
>>>>>> Vice-president NFB Greater Orlando Chapter http://nfbfgoc.org 
>>>>>> Secretary FDCP INC www.fdcp.org Chair Orange County Disability 
>>>>>> Advisory Committee
>>>>>> 
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