By now, you've probably seen the quasi-announcement from RunRev that they are planning some sort of conference activity this year. It may (or may not) have occurred to you to wonder what that means for RevCon West in Monterey.
Chipp and I took a long, hard look at RevCon after the last show and decided not to hold it, at least this year. There were a lot of reasons, some financial, some personal, some work related, and some driving from the feeling tha we weren't serving a very broad community need with our offering. We had not decided whether we would pick up the conference again in 2008, perhaps at a different location (though everyone who has attended has been consistent in urging us to keep it in Monterey). As soon as we had decided to cancel this year's show, we notified Kevin and Lynn at RunRev. We did not want to announce our decision in a way that could harm the community's perception of the ongoing value we place on the technology. They asked us to hold off until they could make their own conference plans clearer. That was the first we'd heard that they were planning to do a (potentially competitive) conference this year and it further reinforced our decision. Obviously this community is not large enough to make multiple multi-day conferences profitable in the U.S. We agreed, somewhat reluctantly because we really felt our primary obligation was to you, the members of this outstanding community, to hold off on our announcement so we could all effect an orderly transition. The mention yesterday of RR's intent to do something in the conference space rendered that delay no longer operable. So now you know. No RevCon West next year. If RR goes ahead with its own conference, that will probably effectively kill RevCon West for future years as well. It was fun. Dan _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution