> When we poll attendees in our Linux and z/VM sessions, 90% of them are MVS > folks that have been told they're going to be doing z/VM and Linux. I > think moving that content into a separate conference would result in > getting very little to no attendees, since their management won't pay to > send them two places.
It is interesting that SHARE/GUIDE Europe seems to do very well with targeted "sub-conferences" for specific topics. The physical proximity of the European community may have a lot to do with that (as well as the collocation with the IBM z/Expos in Europe), but I would suspect that it might be a very interesting thing to try out for the VM and Linux content at SHARE US. What I also observe is that it's a lot easier to get approval in most organizations for conference attendance IFF the conference is tightly focused on a specific topic. Sending someone to a general-purpose conference is hard to justify because it doesn't "accomplish" something trivially evaluatable as relevant to a current project. It may accomplish the same task, but unless it has a specific word in the title, the finance weenies don't want to pay for it. > I don't see that > outnumbering the MVS attendance, so I think trying to draw them away from > other UNIX/Linux conferences would be a bad move. I think that withdrawing the VM and Linux content from SHARE and appending it to LISA would buy a lot more. LISA already has a large-systems orientation, and they're really hot for virtualization and big-system content (and we have more experience doing both than any other virtualization solution). They also aren't hostile to experimental content. It might be a good match -- and having the "we have to build the bigger enterprise, so let's all get along" attitude would be positive for both groups. LISA already attracts the mainstream IT crowd, so I think that might generate the synergy that we want. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
