[Asterisk-Users] Who is going to AstriCon (The Asterisk Conference)?

[Steven Sokol]

On 9/17/05, Kurth Bemis <kurth at ozonecomputer.com> wrote:
> It might be nice to have con for each coast?  Maybe each region?
> (Boston, Atlanta, and uh....two large cities out west :-))  It's a lot
> of work ,but you might get a better turn out because people won't have
> to travel to Atlanta or someplace like that....

We've talked about doing several smaller events, but doing more than
one full-fledged AstriCon per year in the US is cost and time
prohibitive.  The conference will have something like 50 speakers, 25
- 30 exhibitors, 15 staff members.  It takes about 6 months of
planning to arrange something like this.

Olle and I have talked with the Digium guys about doing "road shows"
for Asterisk.  Not so much of a Conference, but a regional or even
local event that's a combination of our one-day introductory class
(yes, commercial -- bad Steven, bad!), a users meeting (code session,
gab session, Q & A with Kevin or Mark or Olle or someone) and a chance
for local Asterisk vendors to show off their products, services, etc.

The question is, which better suits the Asterisk community and
business ecosystem (and we have to try to cover both).  The big
conference is great because you get 500+ Asterisk people in one place
at one time.  The local events are great because people don't have to
make hotel and airline arrangements, be out of the office for most of
a week, etc.

Thoughts?

-S
> 
> Just my .02.
> ~kurth
> 


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