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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 > -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com