Re: Organizing the OSCON presence

Josh Berkus wrote:
> Guys,
>
> > LinuxWorld is currently the default conference where people go, who want
> > to **buy** Open Source.
>
> *before* we start another interminable "Developers vs. Marketeers" argument
> here, let me jump in.
>
> Both conferences are important in different ways. We should go to OSCON to
> reach other OSS developers; we should go to Linuxworld to reach "suits" who
> are thinking of trying an OSS database for the first time. Both initiatives
> are important, but different.
>
> Regarding *Bruce's* attendence, however, OSCON is the important one. Why?
> Because the "suits" could care less that he's a senior member of CORE and the
> commit manager. They will be just as happy with me, or Josh D., or Elein ...
> maybe happier. They're used to talking to marketing drones -- take a look at
> the IBM booth at LWE. 65 salespeople, 6 engineers.
>
> If we have to pick and choose, our star programmers need to focus on the
> "developer" conventions, such as OSCON, Gnome, GUADEC, WWDC. The
> non-source-hackers on this list can pick up the slack at the "suit"
> conventions.
>
> Also, if Comdex improves their OSS Pavillion this year, we may see the
> importance of LinuxWorld fading in the US.

FYI, I had 35 people for the LinuxWorld NYC 1.5 hour BOF. It was great.

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