[PLUG] Re: [Pdx-pm] Re: [pasa-discuss] We might get OSCON here next year, with your help
John Sechrest
sechrest at peak.org
Tue Jul 15 03:25:33 UTC 2003
I found that on thursday more than 1/2 of the talks that I tried
to get into were turning people away at the door, or sprawling
people on the floor.
I did put my disappointment on the eval.
But as a matter of marketing, you should be clear that continued
problems with space and heat will lead to lower attendence
in the future.
John Sechrest
sechrest at peak.org
John Miller <millerj at metro.dst.or.us> writes:
% Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
% >>>>>>"John" == John Miller <millerj at metro.dst.or.us> writes:
% >
% > John> Whatever they do, they have to get some bigger rooms, or better
% > John> anticiapte which subjects will draw large audiences. Many of the
% > John> salon sessions I attended were beyond SRO.
% >
% > It's really really hard to predict attendance. They know some of the
% > big names will have big draws, but it's hard to predict size just
% > looking at an abstract.
%
% Well, there was an "or" in there. :^)
%
% Seriously, I hope they at least try.
% The more obscure topics probably draw smaller numbers.
% Yet php5, webDAV, LPDAP, Python, etc were in SMALL rooms!
%
% Marriot seemed to have rooms for 25 + SRO, then rooms for 200, then for 500.. or
% something like that. Sounds like an interesting problem. I could write a perl
% script.... :^)
%
% Anyway, your point IS well-taken. I put mine on the conf eval.
%
% JM
%
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