2013-02-26 17:28, Nigel Titley skrev:
Where it's Amsterdam, I'm wholly in agreement. The marginal cost of additional staff is minimal.
However, we've had complaints (just vague coffee-break things, nothing formal) about too many RIPE NCC staff at RIPE meetings. As Gert knows, trying to satisfy everyone isn't possible and we try to balance the "keep the staff to a minimum" and "let's have lots of staff there" points of view. If we get the feeling that people want more staff at the meetings then we can ask the NCC to send more staff. It's your organisation, after all.
And to add to the general feeling that there are too few staff at the meetings. I have seen over the last RIPE meetings NCC staff who are so busy that they do not have time for a pint of Guinness in the evening. And that ladies and gentlemen is NOT good. There's always time for a pint of Guinness. /bengan