Please note that OSCON spent several years in Portland. Saying that Portland is part of Boston is like saying that Boston is part of New York.
Ben On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Andrew Langmead <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 21:42 -0400, Tom Metro wrote: >> Do you think they'll ever hold one of these in Boston? >> >> Once upon a time O'Reilly seemed to have more of a presence here. They >> still have offices here (no?), but I had the impression they started out >> here. > > According to > <http://blogs.oreilly.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=57&search=lovelace> > Tim O'Reilly started the company in 1985, and moved to CA in 1987. >> >> It seems that for the last decade or so they've done everything in >> California. > > I'm guessing that O'Reilly was a very different company ten years ago. > In articles like > <http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/02/state-of-the-computer-book-mar-17.html> > people describe the tech book market collapsing in 2001 (falling 20% a year > for three straight years.) I can't find the exact article now, but I've seen > them describe that time period as a time for reinvention. Since OSCON has > always been in CA I assume it will always stay there (although the keep > moving it a bit, Montery, San Diego, etc.) > > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
