There was a survey recently sent out by PASS that asked about moving the Summit from Seattle to other places in the country. It seemed to have been written to shade people towards picking Seattle as the place for the Summit, at least from the discussions among people on Twitter about it. I thought that as well, but I might be biased since this was a complaint I voiced to various PASS board members. I don't know if I could do a better survey, but I did suggest they just ask for a show of hands during the Friday morning update. I thought asking "who wants Orlando? Who wants Boston" would have been good enough to get an idea of whether it's worth pursuing.

Over the years I've had mixed feelings about the Summits. As a DBA I wanted it in Seattle so that I could meet and ask questions of dozens of MS developers during the Summit. As the editor here, it's still good to meet MS people, but I'm less concerned about finding the mid-level developer that worked on PBM to ask about an issue than I am about getting together with Dan Jones and talking higher level issues, and sharing beverage.

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