I had a somewhat different problem, that it was hard to motivate the travel expense across the pond for a mere one day conference. A three day conference would be easier to motivate in my experience; previously working for a larger corporation with large investment in Jenkins at least. The first Jenkins user conference in 2011 was easy to motivate since it was adjacent to Java One. The others were harder.
Having one bigger one could perhaps also give some breathing room to other more local/smaller conferences <http://www.code-conf.com/jues15/> on the subject :) /B On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Manuel Jesús Recena Soto <rec...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello James, > > (reply in line) > > 2015-10-20 12:03 GMT+02:00 James Nord <jn...@cloudbees.com>: > > Taking off my cloudbees hat and putting on my old hat being based in > Europe. > > > > Getting approval to attend conferences abroad (outside Europe) for me was > > not always easy - as it involves large travel and time lost due to > this. As > > such it was easier to go to a european conference. I also feel that yes > > you get more people in USA-CA but that this could just a critical mass > and a > > direct result of its much easier to go to something local than it is to > > travel 9 hours around the globe. Do you have stats of where people came > > from in the last even - where they predominantly from the bay area? > > In the London event I met people that where very basic users of Jenkins > > (just starting) and it was easy for them to go to a local conference. > Would > > these same users make the same investment to go somewhere accross the > globe > > - I personally don't think so - which would be a big shame. > > > > The JAMs fill a gap - but I'm not sure that this gap is filled yet - or > that > > it will be filled by next year - certainly there is nothing in the UK > that > > I know of - and even then we would need something based in the north > west as > > well as somewhere around London. > > I had the opportunity to attend JUG London and was a great experience. > It would be a pity don't have this event in Europe. > > As you pointed, JAM events can fill this gap. > > In Spain, there are two JAM starting (Seville and Barcelona). Maybe > someday, we can organize a bigger event. Another open source > communities do something similar. > > Regards, > > > On Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 4:51:39 AM UTC+2, Kohsuke Kawaguchi > wrote: > >> > >> Putting my CloudBees hat on, I'd like to discuss the following proposed > >> changes to the events in 2016, where we are moving away from JUC into a > new > >> model. > >> > >> > >> > https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Proposal+-+Revisiting+JUC+in+2016 > >> > >> I put this up for the project meeting agenda in 1.5 week, but I hope to > >> get discussions going well before that. > >> > >> -- > >> Kohsuke Kawaguchi > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Jenkins Developers" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/fd26a289-b46b-4c38-a8b0-34bcfc50feab%40googlegroups.com > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > Manuel Recena Soto > * manuelrecena.com [/blog] > * linkedin.com/in/recena > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CABa-Uoe%3DZzEFi8GjqhDnbdzY3U6FRjoSGh85jjkBBAT%3Dn04AiQ%40mail.gmail.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Robert Sandell *Software Engineer* *CloudBees Inc.* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CALzHZS0ztymHnJ3jhk%3DaEAJb6EyyDUimtCV1R3xR-m1h1GqpsA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
