Ten Things You'll Experience Only at OSCON 2006

brian_d_foy on 2006-07-18T16:44:17

The latest email from O'Reilly inviting me to attend OSCON (even though I'm already registered) is really odd. It's meaningless marketing stuff that's just plain wrong.

The mail is titled "Ten Things You'll Experience Only at OSCON 2006".

Out of those top ten things, 7 of them were at YAPC Chicago (about 400ish attendees), and most of them are at most YAPCs. These are the actual things that O'Reilly claims you can only experience at OSCON 2006. I haven't changed the headings:

1) Sessions

2) Tutorials

3) Keynote Presentations

4) Speakers

6) Sponsors and Exhibitors

7) Events

10) People

The ones that weren't at YAPC Chicago don't seem all that special:

5) O'Reilly Radar: The Executive Briefing

8) OSCamp

9) The O'Reilly Booth in the Exhibit Hall

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Executive Briefings

ziggy on 2006-07-18T16:56:13

I especially love the constant plugs to attend the "O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing" on Tuesday. You think someone would have figured they shouldn't spam people who are both registered, and have scheduling conflicts.

That *Would* Have Been Lame

chromatic on 2006-07-18T18:25:42

... if that were all the message said. I don't remember seeing R0ml or Asterisk or TiVo or Powell's at YAPC::NA, for example.

OSCamp

petdance on 2006-07-18T22:33:02

In a way, we did have OSCamp. We had three days of hackathons after YAPC::NA when real work got done.

And speaking of hackathons, keep your eyes open for future hackathon news.