Well, you could go to the music conference :)

Seriously, we ran into this exact scenario for another event, and with that
one, there was a sizable attendee crossover. Those folks made it clear that
if we held our event a week after SXSWi, they would not be attending our
event.

I guess that the bet here is that there isn't much crossover for the
code4lib crowd.

Cary


On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Joshua Gomez <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> FYI before you vote on the conference proposals.
>
> The Austin proposal states:  "The idea is to keep that great energy that is
> generated at SXSWi rolling on through to the end of the Code4Lib conference
> as well as connecting 2 communities that have a lot in common, but rarely
> have the chance to meet."
>
> I have gone to SxSW Interactive the past two years and I plan to continue
> going in the future.  I highly recommend it.  However, attempting to attend
> both SXSW Interactive and the ERL/code4lib mashup would be difficult. Here
> would be the potential schedule:
>
> Thursday March 6 Fly to Austin
> Friday March 7 SXSW Interactive day 1
> Saturday March 8 SXSW Interactive day 2
> Sunday March 9 SXSW Interactive day 3
> Monday March 10 SXSW Interactive day 4
> Tuesday March 11 SXSW Interactive day 5
>
> Wednesday March 12 nothing
> Thursday March 13 nothing
> Friday March 14 nothing
> Saturday March 15 nothing
> Sunday March 16 nothing
>
> Monday March 17 ERL day 1
> Tuesday March 18 ERL day 2
> Wednesday March 19 ERL day 3 / code4lib precons
> Thursday March 20 code4lib day 1
> Friday March 21 code4lib day 2
> Saturday March 22 code4lib day 3 / fly home
>
> There are a few options here:
> 1) Fly to TX March 6, and stay there for 16  more days! <-- I suppose you
> can fill out the interval between Interactive and ERL by attending the SXSW
> Music Festival (March 12-16)
> 2) Fly home after Interactive and fly back to Austin 4 days later (6 if you
> skip ERL)
> 3) Skip going to either Interactive or code4lib
>
> I don't foresee any of these options keeping the energy from Interactive
> rolling through code4lib.  Cross pollination between groups is a great
> idea, but trying to append 3 conferences to each other sounds exhausting to
> me.
>
> -Josh
>
>
> Joshua Gomez
> Digital Library Programmer Analyst
> George Washington University Libraries
> 2130 H St, NW Washington, DC 20052
> (202) 994-8267
>



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