Re: On future conferences

Josh Berkus wrote:
> Josh,
>
>> I agree, my original thought was to tack onto other conferences for
>> example, LinuxWorld West runs tue-thu, we run our conference "in"
>> Linuxworld West by actually have a booth that people can sit at and talk
>> to us, then on Friday we host a series of talks etc... or something.
>
> If we're going to do anything in the Western US, I think a PostgreSQL Day at
> OSCON makes more sense (we were invited to have one last year).  It's a
> better conference, run by better staff who are far more communicative, and it
> would be either free or very low cost.

I was just using LinuxWorld as an example. However I will note that I am
the one that has organized OSCON for the last couple of years and I also
handled LinuxWorld Boston. Frankly LinuxWorld Boston at least from an
exhibitor perspective was a much better run show. Yes it wasn't as big
as they wanted, but they bent over backward to make sure we had
*everything* we needed.

OSCON definitely has the upper hand in the "Open Source + Oreilly" ideal
but LinuxWorld Boston went all out for us. I am not familiar with what
organizing LinuxWorld SF was like as I was just a booth babe this year.

>
> However, I don't want to take away from Ottawa being the "main"
> English-language conference, if we decide to do Ottawa at all.  That should
> be the one, for example, that we do travel sponsorships for.

Why? That doesn't seem to make much sense frankly. I would say save the
travel sponsorships for speakers and have those sponsorships available
for any of the regional shows we determine is going to happen.

>
> Maybe Tokyo in 2008?  Make the annual JPUG conference multi-lingual?
>

Maybe. I actually wouldn't mind seeing AU as or UK a hub for a big
conference.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



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