Given Wall Street's recent record, I'd say your guess would have been
as good as theirs. :-D
Drew
On 3 Apr 2009, at 14:29, Andy Oram wrote:
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.
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