[Baypiggies] QCon - introducing a new software developers conference

[Rick Kwan]

Not to knock the conference or the discussion about who is really
organzing it, but ...
I saw a lot of e-mail addresses of BayPIGgies members on the initial
message.  In fact, was that the full member list?

--Rick Kwan

On 9/26/07, Shannon -jj Behrens <jjinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> If this is for developers and by developers, then $1600 is the *total*
> cost of the conference, right?  That means we'll only have to spend
> about $2 each, right?
>
> Who do you guys think I am, an Oracle consultant? ;)
>
> -jj
>
> On 9/26/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> > Well said. Especially at $1600 or more (which was stated nowhere in
> > the email, nor on the front page of the conference website, but only
> > on the registration page). What's so different about this conference?
> > I very much doubt that if it was really organized "by software
> > developers, for software developers" it would cost that much. I don't
> > know any software developers who know how to spend that much money on
> > swag.
> >
> > On 9/26/07, Alex Martelli <aleax at google.com> wrote:
> > > On 9/26/07, Liv Beswick Skov <lbs at innovationcenterdenmark.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hallo Baypiggies,
> > >
> > > You *DO* know that the "p" there stands for Python, right?
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > The conference is providing a venue for learning, networking, and tracking
> > > innovation in the Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, and Agile communities also with a
> > >
> > > Explicitly listing these two languages (Java and Ruby), and just as
> > > explicitly leaving Python out of the list of languages, makes this sentence
> > > appear quite inimical to the Python community, by making it clear that the
> > > Python language is NOT a "first-class citizen" from your point of view when
> > > compared to Java and Ruby.  Please go spam mailing lists that are devoted to
> > > the communities you list, and stop spamming lists devoted to languages you
> > > so blatantly exclude from your purview.
> > >
> > >
> > > Alex
> > >
> > >
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