Gah, I meant that Portland is part of CA is like..etc. (I should drink less before replying to email.)
Ben On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Ben Tilly <[email protected]> wrote: > Please note that OSCON spent several years in Portland. Â 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
