gnat writes "The Open Source Convention (including The Perl Conference) will be in Portland for 2003. The dates are July 7-11 at Marriott Portland Downtown."
Re:Don't forget the other important URL
kjones4 on 2002-11-07T17:43:14
Another great reason to visit Portland is the *great* beer available in the Pacific Northwest. Even Europeans should be impressed by the selection and quality. Also, if you are a fan of *ahem* "folk dancing", Portland happens to be THE capital in the United States. Adults only.;) Re:Don't forget the other important URL
dug on 2002-11-08T13:24:34
Thank god their stacks are color coded in the actual building. I don't know how many times I've (happily) gotten lost there.
-- dug
Re:Early warning
gnat on 2002-11-07T15:28:33
I posted it as soon as I had the dates. Independent guerilla publishing! Weblogs! Rah rah! BigCos! [insert Dave Winer blather here]--Nat
Re:Nuts
gnat on 2002-11-07T15:35:05
Bummer! We were constrained by dates available at the hotel. If it's any consolation, it would have been much worse if we stayed in San Diego.--Nat
Re:Nuts
jdavidb on 2002-11-07T16:35:41
Dates are good for me. All kinds of things may happen by then, but hopefully I'll see you there!
The pacific northwest is nice. I've never been to OSCON, but I'm tired of it being there just from hearing everyone whine.
:) Must get a wireless card before then...
Re:Go East
gnat on 2002-11-07T15:45:20
Hey, that first step is the hardest. As evidenced by the fact that it took six years AND A BLOODY RECESSION to make it happen:-) That said, I don't think we'll see an east coast conference until we can consistently produce successful conferences on the west coast. The fear is that moving away from our established customer base (a large percentage of OSCON attendees are from California) will leave us with insufficient attendees to meet higher costs (venue costs at east coast tech centres are higher than the west coast). Either way, YAPC and YAPC::EU will be fun and well worth attending. I fantasize that O'Reilly will send me to Europe in '03
... --Nat
Re:Go East
htoug on 2002-11-07T19:35:14
The fear is that moving away from our established customer base (a large percentage of OSCON attendees are from California)
A large percentage of the attendees at YAPC::EU were from Europe - far more than from California.
But that doesn't prove anything either;-)
Good luck with your brave move away from home, and I hope to see you in Paris in 2003.Re:Go East
gnat on 2002-11-08T20:07:59
A large percentage of the attendees at YAPC::EU were from Europe - far more than from California. But that doesn't prove anything either;-) Yes, I don't hear you planning to hold YAPC::EU in California
:-) --Nat
Re:Excellent
gnat on 2002-11-07T15:46:10
You're not the only one--I haven't been to Portland either. I'm looking forward to having an excuse:-) --Nat
Just wait 'til you see what we pull off in our home city!
Re:Stonehenge parties
mako132 on 2002-11-08T17:28:50
Wow, does this mean it will be held at the Schwartz mansion? Can we bring out swimsuits?Re:Stonehenge parties
triv on 2002-11-10T12:53:23
Don't make me send Casey after you to remind you that it wasn't just a stonehedge party!:-) Re:Stonehenge parties
merlyn on 2002-11-11T14:25:32
It was never a "stonehedge" party.And while the party at TPC6 was a joint venture, the other California parties at TPC5 and TPC4 were bigger (in some ways), and I don't recall Casey kicking in any dough for those.
So, please to not be so fast on that trigger.
Re:How About Having one in the Midwest
gnat on 2002-11-07T19:08:11
The scuttlebutt I've heard is that tech conferences in Chicago don't get high attendance--it gets neither the California nor the Eastern Corridor convenience traffic.--Nat
Re:How About Having one in the Midwest
sth_2 on 2002-11-07T19:17:38
Hmm, I would think it would be easy to fly into O'Hare Airport, from anywhere. Oh well, I'll keep suggesting Chicago:-)
STHRe:How About Having one in the Midwest
chromatic on 2002-11-07T20:42:10
Easy but annoying. That airport's unlucky, I tell you!
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jmm on 2002-11-08T18:40:54
It's easy to (have to) fly through O'Hare, if you want to go somewhere else.
I'll finally attend a Perl conference and I won't even have to pay for a hotel room. I'm a happy man. I guess I had better put in my vacation request now before the hordes (2) of other Perl programmers here see this.
