Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Craig Zeni wrote: >On Nov 21, 2005, at 9:21 AM, Aaron Sandler wrote: >>http://www.duke.edu/~ajs2/PAW/2005_46/index.html > >My shot from the DC Convention Center about three weeks ago: >http://gallery.leica-users.org/Colors/DChall >http://gallery.leica-users.org/Colors/10thSt >Lovely new convention center. Layout is a bit unorthodox, but I thought >it worked pretty well. >CZ >NC It is indeed lovely, but I saw a bunch of problems at our conference with design & maintenance. I think the design problems had a lot to do with the confusing layout inherent in the need to make the building in the shape of a cube to fit in downtown (as opposed to many convention centers that are basically linear). But even then, they could have done better. The worst for me was when I walked alongside a woman in an electric wheelchair as we both followed signs to "Hall D" for a talk. After about 10 mintues, we reached an escalator...there was no elevator in sight. She asked a nearby security guard where the elevator was. He said there wasn't an elevator nearby and suggested she go back to the main registration desk (10 minutes away) and ask them how to get up to the room. Pretty outrageous for a new convention center, I thought. On the bright side, you do run into a lot of old friends there...I ran into one pal twice, about 20 minutes apart, as we both circled the convention center (in opposite directions) each trying to find some particular place. The second time I saw him we were both sweating just a little from trying frantically to get to where we needed to be. I found where I was going a few minutes later...I assume he made it out alive too, but I haven't heard. -Aaron