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

[Michael Davies]

On 10/8/06, Michael Still <mikal at stillhq.com> wrote:
> 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?

That might be hard to judge given that LCA's typically grow each year
if there's venue capacity.
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