Re: [RFC] holding a mod_perl conference

[Jeff D. 'Spud (Zeppelin)' Almeida]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Nathan Torkington wrote:

> The problem with standalone conferences is that you need
> to have reasonably high attendance before they pay for the logistical
> work and equipment hire needed to put them on.  "Reasonably high"
> could be anywhere from 200 to 500 depending on the hotel, speakers
> fees, tutorial attendance, number of parallel tracks, etc.

1) I don't think getting 200 people to attend a mod_perl conference is
particularly ambitious at all, especially if it's held in a manner
convenient for people to attend.  20,000 people went to Linux World in New
York, and it wasn't THAT great of a show.... If you hold a conference
where you already have a fairly thick concentration of mod_perl
developers, and you get the right people to speak, people WILL come.

2) What people are saying isn't that we want a huge, IDG-ish production
with tracks and a tradeshow floor and catered water and soundsystems and
skirted tables.  Several people have said they would rather have something
along the YAPC model... a small, productive session, perhaps better suited
for the conference facilities of a University than those of a hotel.  If
ever there was something calling for the "KISS" mantra, it was this con. :)
Would we appreciate logistial support from O'Reilly? Of course.  Do we
want this con to be large enough to have to worry about revenue models?
Not particularly. 

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Jeff D. "Spud (Zeppelin)" Almeida
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