EWUG 2006

What's you're thoughts on Appleton and the Paper Valley conference center for this year's conference? This is a first-class hotel/conference center. Yet, "It's not Madison".

Is that good, bad, or doesn't matter?

My take: Sure, a good chunk of ESRI-Wisconsin users are in the Madison / Milwaukee area. There are also lot of other users elsewhere in the state. Both Madison (especially) and Milwaukee don't have very good facilities for our size at a price you can afford. Once you get outside the Madison/Milwaukee, facilities become very reasonable. This makes for cheap conference rates (what other GIS conference do you have 1 and 1/2 days of sessions, two lunches and free beer for $75 bucks?). EWUG is simply the best place for ESRI information for Wisconsin users without traveling to San Diego.