[Baypiggies] FYI Chicago is Pycon 2008
Alvin Wang
alvinwang at gmail.com
Tue Mar 6 00:40:17 CET 2007
Thanks,
I am not discouraged. I have an appt at the SJ Doubletree in a few weeks to
discuss 2009.
Chicago will be fine too. I am glad it was not Cleveland. I highly
recommend going. They are very educational.
Alvin
On 2/28/07, Shannon -jj Behrens <jjinux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Alvin,
>
> Thanks for your hard work. I know this is saddening to you, but just
> think of all the hard work you don't have to do! I'm always happy to
> let someone else do all the hard work if I can avoid it ;) Besides,
> I've never been to Chicago.
>
> -jj
>
> On 2/26/07, Alvin Wang <alvinwang at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > They announced the winner after I left on Sunday so I got the info late.
> > Anyway Chicago won.
> >
> > http://chipy.org/ChiPyCon_2008_Bid
> >
> > There were several reasons.
> > - cheaper, they felt that Chicago would be a reasonable incremental
> > increase in room rate.
> > - bigger - this year was 40% larger than last year. They expect at
> least
> > that large a jump by coming to the Bay Area.
> > - Chicago stacked the quiz responses from 2006. Chicago was the most
> asked
> > for venue. In talking to people that were not from Chicago, SF was
> widely
> > preferred. Chicago has a lot of people at the conference.
> >
> > I pitched Santa Clara too after some people expressed concern about San
> > Mateo's size.
> >
> > I got the feeling that they wanted to split the win since 2 cities put
> in
> > good bids. Chicago was cheaper and had a lot of people so they went
> first.
> >
> > There is a very good possibility that 2009 will be awarded prior to
> 2008.
> > The problem is that 2009 will be even larger. They are going to contact
> me
> > about it. I am planning on looking into a few more options.
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> > Alvin
> >
> >
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Alvin Wang
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