Hi Dan & Chipp and everyone,
If you (or anyone) wish to hold a Revolution event in LA, I would
cover the upfront expenses of the venue, probably LA Convention
Center, monster projector and screen, great sound system, donate
video gear for taping (again), do some co-co-ordination, etc.
We are event experts, we've put on about 1500 events of various kinds
in the last 7 years, and have all systems in place, from registration
to name badges, etc.
Also, FYI, for groups of 50 or less, we have a seminar room in Santa
Monica, and a hands-on training room with 10 workstations as well.
Just wanted to make everyone aware of these resources if they might
come in handy for "the cause".
Cheerios!
On Dec 21, 2006, at 9:43 AM, Dan Shafer wrote:
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
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