RE: OSCON ideas - missing proceedings
Mark Schoonover writes: Are there plans to do the University again?? Every year or two I try again to revive it. Your message started me again this year. No promises, but we're looking into it. Thanks Nat for the work you did down here!! Thanks for your kind words. I love every minute of being at a conference, so it's hard to describe it as work.[*] Nat [*] Just don't ask me about the minutes organizing the conference before it all happens :-)
Re: OSCON ideas - missing proceedings
Nathan == Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nathan Not for two years at least (the duration of the contract with the Nathan Portland hotel). The San Diego hotel was much more expensive and Nathan remote, compared to the Portland hotel. I think people are really Nathan going to enjoy being in the middle of a city at this year's OSCON. Yes... the number of things that are within walking distance of the hotel is rather nice. The waterfront park should be rather spectacular, especially at night when the 14 bridges across the Willamette are lit up in their own unique ways. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
Re: OSCON ideas - missing proceedings
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Nathan == Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nathan Not for two years at least (the duration of the contract with the Nathan Portland hotel). The San Diego hotel was much more expensive and Nathan remote, compared to the Portland hotel. I think people are really Nathan going to enjoy being in the middle of a city at this year's OSCON. Yes... the number of things that are within walking distance of the hotel is rather nice. The waterfront park should be rather spectacular, especially at night when the 14 bridges across the Willamette are lit up in their own unique ways. I agree. No matter what, speaking as someone who hasn't travelled around America all that much, I think it's fun to know that the OSCon is in different places every couple of years and to get exposed to those places. Also, speaking as someone who earns money in a non-US currency, having a less expensive place to stay at is much nicer. I am sure the self-employed in the US also feel similarly... (ie anyone who doesn't have a company paying for it...and isn't a shareholder of that company). Later, Gunther
RE: OSCON ideas - missing proceedings
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Nathan Torkington wrote: Mark Schoonover writes: Any chance they will bring it back to San Diego?? :) Not for two years at least (the duration of the contract with the Portland hotel). The San Diego hotel was much more expensive and remote, compared to the Portland hotel. I think people are really going to enjoy being in the middle of a city at this year's OSCON. Hallelujah to that, brother! San Diego was gorgeous, and the hotel was nice, but I didn't rent a car, and just doing stuff like getting to the city for lunch (on the days when lunch wasn't served) was a giant PITA, compounded by the fact that I'm vegan, so I can't go just anywhere and be guaranteed that they'll have something I'd want. And a less-expensive place is also a good thing. The San Diego Sheraton was _expensive_, and since I'll be footing the bill (hopefully only partially if I can get a tutorial accepted ;) cheaper is good! -dave /*=== House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com ===*/
RE: OSCON ideas - missing proceedings
Any chance they will bring it back to San Diego?? :) .mark -Original Message- From: Robert Landrum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 2:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OSCON ideas - missing proceedings One of the other things I disliked about the last OSCON was the missing Perl Conference Proceedings. I still have very fond memories of reading about Damians very sick, very twisted, Coy.pm in the 1999 Perl Conference Proceedings. Did anyone else notice that they weren't made available at the last OSCON? Any chance we could convince O'Reilly to bring that back? Rob
RE: OSCON ideas - missing proceedings
Mark Schoonover writes: Any chance they will bring it back to San Diego?? :) Not for two years at least (the duration of the contract with the Portland hotel). The San Diego hotel was much more expensive and remote, compared to the Portland hotel. I think people are really going to enjoy being in the middle of a city at this year's OSCON. Nat
Re: OSCON ideas - missing proceedings
Robert Landrum writes: One of the other things I disliked about the last OSCON was the missing Perl Conference Proceedings. They didn't appear because we didn't have time at O'Reilly to do it. They're prepared in Framemaker, to fit with our style guide, and take a huge and painful amount of time to do. Jon Orwant did them in 2000, I did them in 2001, and nobody had time to do them in 2002. I can't see them in 2003, either, as we're not soliciting refereed papers this year. We do make presentation materials available online after the conference ends, for what that's worth. Nat
Re: OSCON ideas - missing proceedings
One of the other things I disliked about the last OSCON was the missing Perl Conference Proceedings. I still have very fond memories of reading about Damians very sick, very twisted, Coy.pm in the 1999 Perl Conference Proceedings. Did anyone else notice that they weren't made available at the last OSCON? Any chance we could convince O'Reilly to bring that back? Rob
