Re: Euro PG conference?

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 17:45:10 +0200
"Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> 2007/10/9, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>:
> > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 15:07 +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> > > prague: 1 (dave)
> > > vienna: 3 (Hans-Juergen Schoenig, Chris Mair, Pavel Stehule)
> > > prato: 0
> > > paris: 0
> >
> > I think right now we should focus on
> > - when is the conference
> > - who will be organising it
> > - what we think should happen at this conference
> >
> > I'm much less bothered about *where*, unless that influences things.
> >
> > It's clear that wherever we hold it in Europe most other countries
> > won't attend in the same numbers as will the country where we hold
> > it.
> >
> > That does make me think: why have a European conference? Why not
> > just have lots of local ones?
> >
>
> 1. USA or Canada is too far
> 2. Local conferencies are too small, without BUZ efect, without bigger
> sortiment of presentations.

I think it depends. If you want to reach out to our US/CA counterparts,
we need to have a big conference. If you want to reach out to regionals
then we need to have smaller conferences.

That is what is happening here in the states. We are having no less
than 4 conferences we are regionally appropriate in the next 12 months.
The one we are having in two weeks is already almost at capacity (50)
just by serving the pacific northwest.

I expect our Winter conference which is in Southern California to be 3
times that.

What *I* want to see is a EuroPG conference. I would like to smaller
ones too, but a big EuroPG conference would likely draw more people
from my side of the pond. Growing community folks :)

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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