Bill Ricker wrote: ... > In Boston/NewEngland we've got lots of FLOSS contributors and projects > and skunkworks projects using FLOSS to help our firms/clients, but we > don't have the big marketing departments or big big customers. (My > firm has major IT budget, but I spent more time at the show than > central IT EA.) We'd have a better shot at a developers-and-geeks > OSCON style conference here than a marketing glitz show. Some year > we'll get our act together and host YAPC in Boston. If that goes over > well we could consider trying to throw a OSCON-EAST, but that would be > a lot of work -- would need deep committee drawn from _all_ the LUGs > and *UG's from the rest of LAMP.
I would second the above. There's enough local FLOSS talent to make attending a technical conference worthwhile. And there's certainly enough change in FLOSS to warrant a "get up-to-date" conference if nothing else. --Bruce _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
