Jonathan,
> FWIW in the past I've spoken to several of the marketing people from
> some of the above mentioned companies and all were interested in
> finding ways to help collaborate with the community to increase our
> market presence. The issue in terms of getting all of us and them
> into the same room is just that - they may not be able to attend
> PGCon but can go to one of the other conferences.
That would be interesting. Speaking from the community advocacy side of
things, collaborating with our corporate partners for PR stuff has been
so difficult I've given up on it. It would be interesting to see what
they think would work.
>
> With that said, given our strong marketing / advertising presence in
> NYC I would be happy to help facilitate some sort of "marketing
> summit" around our NYC conference even for this go around since we
> have enough advanced notice to do so.
As part of NYCPg next year? That sounds good. Maybe we could
back-to-back it with PyCon in Montreal so that I could make a round-trip?
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Josh Berkus
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