On Fri, Dec 8, 2017, 13:28 Kevin A. McGrail <kevin.mcgr...@mcgrail.com> wrote:
> I don't think we are proposing an apachecon but rather an apache > conference. Call it what you will. > Unclear what distinction you're making here. Apachecon is of course short for "apache conference". The brand has a following. > I agree. I want 2 rooms with 6x50 min speeches each on 12 different > topics plus a keynote and endnote for all plus a lunch break. I would even > consider selling two tracks for sponsor speeches. And yes it would be made > sure not to be a sales pitch. > > We sell a dozen tables for vendors and voila. > > A speaker dinner and sponsor party the night before. > > I am slammed right now but I have some ideas for venues for the space that > i can talk to about donating the use to keep costs low but still be nice. I would like to see us do something like this. However I'm very skeptical of your "sell a dozen tables for vendors" like that's trivial. Certainly i would love to see it be that easy but we've been trying this for *years* and it gets harder every year. >
