[Chicago] Pycon in Chicago?

[Adam "Cezar" Jenkins]

Ah. I believe you're right. One of them was a big loss. I've heard all
kinds of reasons, all rumors so I won't go repeating them.


On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Naomi Ceder <naomi.ceder at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Jason Wirth <wirth.jason at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> >> If there is a bid from Chicago, it will have to be a good one. I
>> remember that 08 was a huge loss for the PSF.
>>
>> I was just getting into Python around 2008 and didn't know much about the
>> language, it's culture, nor it's conferences. What happened to make the
>> event a loss?
>>
>> I believe it was 2009 and the great crash that was the money losing year.
> 2008 was a reasonable success, enough so that things were expanded to cover
> 2 hotels, so with the crash the losses were impressive, over $200K, IIRC.
>
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>> I'd think Chicago would be an excellent choice--plenty of hotels and
>> large convention spaces (although are there union issues?), easy public
>> transit as well as multiple airports, access from both coasts, etc....
>>
>> The only downside, as far as I can tell, is that Chicago doesn't have a
>> "geek" culture like Silicon Valley.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jason Wirth
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>>     wirth.jason at gmail.com
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>>
>> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Adam "Cezar" Jenkins <
>> emperorcezar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If there is a bid from Chicago, it will have to be a good one. I
>>> remember that 08 was a huge loss for the PSF.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Brantley Harris <deadwisdom at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I agree with this.  After all PyCon has never been in Chicago as I do
>>>> not consider Rosemont to be Chicago.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Jason Wirth <wirth.jason at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I recently saw that Pycon is looking for alternative locations.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://pycon.blogspot.com/2013/03/looking-for-2016-2017-host-cities.html
>>>>>
>>>>> What are people's thoughts on Chicago as a location?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Jason Wirth
>>>>>     213.675.5294
>>>>>     wirth.jason at gmail.com
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