[Linux-aus] LCA2014 update

[Chris Neugebauer]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:31 PM, James Turnbull <james at lovedthanlost.net> wrote:
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> Donna Benjamin wrote:
>> It can easily be done with a distributed team, and a professional production company.
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> +100. OSCON is done like this. Sarah and Edd run the program and do the
> high level planning and a professional production crew - in this case
> O'Reilly staff - run the operation on the ground. They managed nearly
> 3000 people this year like that so I think it's a model that not only
> works but scales.
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OSCON also costs approximately 4 times as much to attend as LCA does,
and has considerably fewer social value-adds than LCA does.

--Chris

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