Re: Important OSCON update

After a long battle with technology, josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com (Josh Berkus), an earthling, wrote:
>> My feeling is that we had a reasonable number of PostgreSQL folks
>> last year, but not enough to justify dramatically expanding our
>> conferences slots this year. Now if this year has lots of
>> attendees, we might have more slots next year.
>
> Oh, I don't think that O'Reilly is being unfair; I counted total
> timeslots for the confence. I'm just dissappointed that some of our
> people won't get to go because their presentations will be
> alternates.

The only way that you can get more slots, in the long run, is to have
more people that are going despite _not_ giving presentations. I'd
rather like to head to the conference, but it may be difficult to
justify the value to my employer if I'm not going to the additional
effort of presenting.

Getting numbers up to justify expanding the conference slots requires
that there be more people that are shelling out full price for the
conference. O'Reilly isn't looking to pay more presenters to come;
they are looking to get attendees.
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