Re: When to hold Pg East

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 12:53 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 11:41 -0500, Melanie wrote:
>
> > > The idea that a United States Conference should care about a Canadian
> > > one is silly.
> >
> > Sure, as long as you don't mind having few Postgres speakers, because
> > most of them are going to PGCon in Canada.
>
> Well I am certainly not going to plan on having East during PgCon, we
> actually took great pains last year to make sure that didn't happen. My
> preferred time frame is late March early April. Your point is well taken
> though. I am fully aware that the closer we get to PgCon the harder both
> conference will have attracting speakers. There will be some speakers
> who prefer to go to East for various reasons versus Ottawa and vice
> versa.

This just highlights the absurdity of having two Postgres conferences on
the East Coast in the same season, and having no other East Coast
conferences the rest of the year.

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