[Linux-aus] President's Report: August / September 2006

[Michael Still]

Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 11:29:54PM -0700, Michael Still wrote:
>> Jeff Waugh wrote:
>>>> I hope we're not considering implementing attendance-maximisation through
>>>> obscurity?
>>> ... and why not? It makes total sense. [...]
>> This has been done for previous conferences.
> 
> Quite deliberately, in fact; personally I think it'll be interesting to
> see how Sydney does with numbers given people know the next conference
> will be in Melbourne, and Sydney have a lot of places available and a lot
> of neat ideas on the table. I think lca probably attracts enough people
> (and probably sponsors) that having people skip a year might actually be
> a feature, in that it lets more people enjoy the lca experience instead
> of missing out due to lca being booked out... But we'll see.

I agree. While I realize that the AUUG conference is a different event, 
it is also interesting to note that AUUGs held in Sydney always have 
better attendance that those held in Melbourne. I wonder if the same is 
true of LCAs?

Mikal