The university campus. The vendors are now an important part of the Seminar and there is restrictions about selling for profit on campuses of universities, some tax problems. We experienced problems in Dallas and Tuscaloosa because we were on campus. In Tuscaloosa, even though we were on campus, we used the hotel facilities in order to have everyone under the same roof. There is also the question of food at breaks.
Every university has their own set of rules and it makes the organization much more complicated.
The format of the conference with 4 presenters and 35 participants in each group forced us to stop the registration at 140 people in Chicago, Greensboro and Ann Arbor, not the space in the hotel or any other venue for that matter. The only way to accept more people is to have 5 presenters with 35 people maximum in each group and each participant goes to 4 presentations, or in one room where everybody gets to see the presenter on a screen. Every participants knows that you respond the day or so after the receipt of your June newsletter if you do not want to be disappointed. This year the registration was closed faster then any other year at our great surprise. It seems now that we are leaning toward having 5 presenters when we think that the application will be sufficient to fill the 5th group and pay for the expenses that it provokes.