Re: Surveys at conferences..

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 04:29:31PM -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> > 
> > Well, I'm not sure if we still have time for the booth.  I can ask.
> > 
> > I can take care of the paper work for OSCON booth, but someone needs
> > to volunteer to run it, since I'm not sure I will be able to.  If I can
> > then I will...
> 
> Please go ahead and ask- worst case we have to back out and they have
> an empty booth.

OK, sending mail to Andrew now :)

> > So let me get back to you guys on Monday about OSCON booth..
> > 
> > One thing I'd like to see that seems to be missing is a tutorial
> > for GNOME/GTK+ Python bindings.  This conference is huge for Ruby
> > and Python and having someone talk about how to use python to work
> > with the desktop would be killer.
> 
> Yeah, but it is too late for that, right?

Well, sure for a formal talk, but lightening talks and BOFs are
possible.  There is also good opportunity to meet with Open Source
evangalists and strike up partnerships etc etc looking through who
is attending the conference.

OSCON is a special conference when compared to other ones.
It's smaller, and there is a good mix of techies, marketing folks
and business folks who are technical and it's just way more laid
back without all the commercialism.

You'll find Edd and Miguel love coming here..

sri