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MW2008: some final stats

By jennifer trant - Posted on 15 April 2008

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As you are preparing your report, here are a few statistics to round up Museums and the Web:

papers presented: 38 [all papers on-line]
demonstrations given: 57 [descriptions on-line]
interaction sessions: 20 [most with papers on-line]
exhibitors: 29 [descriptions on-line]
number of registrants: 662 [see their institutions]
countries represented: 27
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Chile
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Guatemala
Israel
Italy
Japan
Kenya
Mexico
The Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Russia
Scotland
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
United Kingdom
USA
blog postings: hard to tell, they are still coming in
flickr photos posted to the mw2008 group: still coming in
botttles of wine served at the conference reception: 298 [maybe you can leave that one out...]

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298 bottles of wine? bloody

Submitted by Frankie Roberto on April 15, 2008 - 7:00pm.

298 bottles of wine? bloody hell!

How many kilos of cheese?

cheese

Submitted by David Bearman on April 16, 2008 - 1:27pm.

Apparently we consumed 35 kilos of Old cheddar, Gruyere, Havarti, Riopelle, Grand Pont L’évêque, Dovanier, Goat Paillot, Pied de Vent, Mi-Carême, Brie, Petit Camembert, Saint-Honoré, and Kénogami and left barely enough for a mouse:-)

David Bearman

...and just how many pounds of coffee?

Submitted by Joe Hoover on April 16, 2008 - 10:16pm.

It was amazing to watch the wine and cheese consumption at the receptions. Did they not realize that years of wine and cheese at museum openings have given museum staff legendary capacity for both substances?

460 litres of coffee, at c.80C has a specific gravity of .9718

Submitted by David Bearman on April 17, 2008 - 5:01pm.

so that would make it 447.028 kilo's or 983.46 lbs. - short of half a ton:-)

David Bearman