I didn't talk to the head of the conferences group about why OSCon was moved. Perhaps it's for the reasons Uri mentioned. But the buzz I heard at O'Reilly was that the organizers discovered most attendees still came from California, and the organizers were afraid rising oil costs would discourage them from traveling far. We knew even less than the Wall Street financiers did about the future of the economy.
Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Uri Guttman" <[email protected]> To: "Andy Oram" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Friday, April 3, 2009 9:24:21 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Discount for O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) >>>>> "AO" == Andy Oram <[email protected]> writes: AO> But bigger conferences just don't seem to draw enough people in AO> Boston. Even Portland, as you can see, doesn't bring the crowds AO> anymore. Or at least the conference group was afraid it wouldn't, AO> which is why they moved OSCon to Santa Clara (sad). i was under the impression that oscon outgrew portland. all of the smaller rooms were taken up and many were overflowing for some talks. is san jose a smaller or larger venue? or is it being closer to sebastopol a cost saving measure? and san jose was the host of the first two TPC's held completely in the fairmont hotel. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [email protected] -------- http://www.sysarch.com -- ----- Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support ------ --------- Free Perl Training --- http://perlhunter.com/college.html --------- --------- Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix ---- http://bestfriendscocoa.com --------- -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andy Oram O'Reilly Media email: [email protected] Editor 10 Fawcett Street, Fourth Floor voice: 617-499-7479 Cambridge, MA 02138-1175 fax: 617-661-1116 USA http://www.praxagora.com/andyo/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
