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Sent: 05 April 2000 16:51
Subject: Re: [RFC] holding a mod_perl conference
: On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Nathan Torkington wrote:
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: > The problem with standalone conferences is that you need
: > to have reasonably high attendance before they pay for the logistical
: > work and equipment hire needed to put them on. "Reasonably high"
: > could be anywhere from 200 to 500 depending on the hotel, speakers
: > fees, tutorial attendance, number of parallel tracks, etc.
:
: 1) I don't think getting 200 people to attend a mod_perl conference is
: particularly ambitious at all, especially if it's held in a manner
: convenient for people to attend. 20,000 people went to Linux World in New
: York, and it wasn't THAT great of a show.... If you hold a conference
: where you already have a fairly thick concentration of mod_perl
: developers, and you get the right people to speak, people WILL come.
Would 200 not be enough ? If it cannot be profitable / viable with that
number / order of magnitude then there must be a problem.
:
: 2) What people are saying isn't that we want a huge, IDG-ish production
: with tracks and a tradeshow floor and catered water and soundsystems and
: skirted tables. Several people have said they would rather have something
: along the YAPC model... a small, productive session, perhaps better suited
Here, here !
Never been to YAPC - I live in the UK (South of London) - but I would _much_
prefer to ( read only ) go to a simple, yet highly productive event than
anything flashy.
: for the conference facilities of a University than those of a hotel. If
: ever there was something calling for the "KISS" mantra, it was this con.
:)
agreed again on the KISS front
Greg Cope
: Would we appreciate logistial support from O'Reilly? Of course. Do we
: want this con to be large enough to have to worry about revenue models?
: Not particularly.
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: Jeff D. "Spud (Zeppelin)" Almeida
: Windsor, CT
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