From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: On future conferences |
Date: | 2006-09-23 17:45:39 |
Message-ID: | 451572C3.7040508@commandprompt.com |
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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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