Re: On future conferences

Josh,

I don't agree with holding a pg-hackers' conference in Japan
*next year*. It is not only financial issue.

JPUG has own conference for business users and application
developers every year.

In my opinion, this conference is more important than hackers'
conference, because business users/application developers are
*very very* important for the software product. So I don't want to push
a bilingual/English-language conference to them (bilingual keynote
speech is welcome).

Of course, I understand the hackers conference is also important,
so if you plan to separate two conferences (for hackers and users),
it's good idea, but I don't think JPUG has ability to have two big
conferences in one year.

I agree with holding pg-hackers conference at OSCON or LinuxWorld.
It looks reasonable for us.

On 9/24/06, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Maybe Tokyo in 2008?  Make the annual JPUG conference multi-lingual?
>
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