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I did tech support for a database conference at the Adams Mark around 2000.

That was the biggest fluster cluck I've ever seen.

The hotel sabotaged the DSL line that provides Internet access until thousands of dollars in previously undisclosed fees were paid.

[linsomniac]

PyCon had a conference planning company heavily involved from fairly early on, and that ended up avoiding, to the best of my knowledge, much of that sort of thing. The contracts ended up being fairly well negotiated. But *THAT* process was quite the hair-pulling exercise.