Matt Sergeant writes:
> I doubt it's the last one we'll see fall... I suspect TPC will be a
> shadow of its former self... :(
Despite my best efforts (zillions more tracks than last year, 200+
talks, five days instead of four, all in a tanking economy), there's
going to be an OScon with TPC next year. They're arguing about the
dates right now (June? Or September? June! September!) and I can
announce them next week. We've talked about next year, and the basic
story is that there'll be fewer tracks than this year, getting it back
to a manageable level. I think we're going to keep it at 5 days.
Attendance at this year's conference will be down from last year, but
it's nowhere near the point where we'd say "that's it, we can't do
this any more".
I'm so looking forward to going back to last year's convention size.
Organizing this year's convention (TPC+modperl+Apache+PHP+Zope+Python+
MySQL+PostgreSQL+Mozilla+Linux+OpenSource+Java+Tcl+EmergingTopics) was
threatening my sanity--too many talks to keep straight, too many
speakers to cancel at the last minute, too many different special
interests pissed off for whatever reasons.
Anyone have requests for next year? I know everyone wants a cheaper
conference, but I've banged my head against a brick wall at O'Reilly
for four years arguing that it should be cheaper. If you feel that
there'd be more attendees at a lower price, then I suggest you tell
that to every O'Reilly conferences person you see at TPC (except for
me :-)
Are there any requests other than price for next year? What would you
like to see? What could you do without?
Nat
