The JavaOne alignment will probably work. The last time, we had a special Bay Area Clojure meetup following it, and it was our biggest ever (around 80 people). Of course, that was because Rich was there.
Tim and I are having another discussion over the weekend, we'll keep you all posted... On Jan 28, 2:49 pm, Richard Newman <holyg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Conference alignment is smart, but to which conference? I suppose it > > depends on whether the conference organizers prefer to convenience the > > audience of JavaOne or ICFP. I'm unfamiliar with what sort of folks > > go to JavaOne, I'd imagine many of them aren't familiar with Clojure > > and wouldn't be interested in paying (or convincing their employers to > > pay) to attend the conference. > > I attended JavaOne last year, primarily for SailFin and Clojure. It's > *huge*. There was interest for Clojure, but there are also aisles upon > aisles of awful middleware/reporting software brokers. > > If I wasn't sponsored to go, I wouldn't have paid for it. I imagine > the overlap for ICFP and ILC (which isn't happening again until 2011) > would be a higher percentage, if not a higher absolute figure due to > the huge size of JavaOne. > > Whether most of the JavaOne co-attendees would actually be 'genuine' > Clojurites in the making, or just Java drones looking for fresh > buzzwords, I can't say. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
