From: Jeff Barczewski Date: 2006-10-25T23:26:14+09:00 Subject: Re: RubyConf2006 Retrospective ------=_Part_2463_5966588.1161786371317 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 10/25/06, Austin Ziegler wrote: > > On 10/25/06, Trans wrote: > > Disney World > > (Orlando, Florida) > > God no. Nothing personal, Trans, but Orlando is less likely to have a > successful high tech conference than anywhere else that's been named > so far. It's not their focus; they're purely focussed on tourism. > > Well with all due respect, I have been to many high tech conferences in tourist destinations like Orlando, LA, and Vegas and they went off really well. M$ has thrown quite a few conferences in all of those cities, many with over 3,000 people. (Not that I am a M$ supporter any more, I have seen the errors of my ways :-), but they did throw some good conferences). One nice thing about those destinations was that you could add a few days onto the trip and make a vacation out of it with some of the travel expenses already being covered. I will contend that other cities might be more focussed on providing high tech and at more reasonable rates than places like Orlando, but all that being said I think it still would be a nice destination. Jeff ------=_Part_2463_5966588.1161786371317--