[nfb-talk] Convention in Orlando for 5 years

Sun Jul 10 23:14:00 UTC 2011

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:
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>
>
>
>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-----
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>>>>> [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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