[arch-events] ArchCon 2010

[Loui Chang]

On Tue 03 Nov 2009 16:19 +0200, Roman Kyrylych wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 16:07, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be> wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 15:24:49 +0200
> > Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 18:32, Dusty Phillips <dusty at linux.ca> wrote:
> >> > Hey everyone,
> >> >
> >> > We started discussing an Arch Linux Canada conference and decided
> >> > we'd host a general Arch Linux Conference. Yah, it's been discussed
> >> > before, but never has it been done. Our theory is it'll go better
> >> > than we expected and we'll do it again someplace else, or it'll
> >> > totally bomb and we won't try again. ;-)
> >>
> >> During FrOSCon we were discussing ArchCon in Europe,
> >> with possible places somewhere in Germany
> >> (because it's easy for most European devs to get there),
> >> or Ukraine (because food/drinks and settlement is cheap
> >> for all europeans here :-P).
> >> So if both of us succeed in organising this
> >> there will be a naming clash.
> >>
> >
> > define "clash"? i don't think that there's something wrong with having
> > an ArchCon in canada and one in europe at least a month apart or so.
> >
> > other then that, if there are 2 events, this will decrease the upcome
> > of devs for both events...
> 
> Sure, there's nothing wrong with that.
> It's just that 2 events in 2 different places having the same name
> might be confusing (e.g. when referring to them in news or forums etc.).
> Maybe call 'em ArchCon Canada/Europe, or call the second one 2010.2. :-)

ArchCanCon

Woo.