Re: DEVNEXUS and downtown

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Dale Bronk <dbronk-LuSU/[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm in Alpharetta and while I don't like having to drive into town, the
> World Congress Center is extremely accessible via MARTA which is what I
> would use to go.  While it is still further away from me than the Galleria
> it would actually be less stress for me as I would just sit on a train
> instead of being frustrated with traffic.
>
> Devnexus is without a doubt the best Java conference you will go to for
> such a low price.  Why wouldn't we want to open it up to more people which
> would then bring in more speakers and more topics?  My only issue is that
> I'm not going this year.  I'm going to miss a great conference no doubt.
>

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>
> Regards,
>
> Dale
>
>
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Vincent Mayers" <[email protected]>
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Sent: 2/10/2016 12:59:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [ajug-members] DEVNEXUS and downtown
>
>
> AJUG is free to join, participate in and is volunteer run.
>
> The fact that we can scale the conference and keep the price point so low
> means that more people in the Atlanta dev community can benefit from a
> national conference with globally recognized speakers and OEMs as sponsors
> in their back yard. All other conferences like this are not in Atlanta, and
> by the time you travel, stay and pay for them it will cost over $2000, for
> one person
>
> No matter what we do about location, venue, whatever. It is not going to
> be convenient for everyone.
>
> I understand that you are passionate so please join us, add your voice and
> volunteer
>
>
>
>
> Cheers
> Vincent
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Quite humbly, that begs the question, was there a poll on asking the ajug
>> members that we want to grow that big ?
>>
>> My point is, there was not an attempt to (or was there and I missed out)
>> collect a poll from the  ajug members to say should we keep increasing the
>> size of participation at the devnexus or cap it at say 1000 people or so ?
>>
>> I am not saying we should cap it, I not saying we should grow too much
>> either but the ajug community from which this devnexus derives its standing
>> was not actively engaged.
>>
>> Hopefully a retrospective for next year's devnexus is in the offing to
>> have a fair and transparent opinion collection and decision making.
>>
>> You may say, "we are not forcing you to attend", yes while that is true,
>> I am a member of the ajug group and I feel I have a sense of responsibility
>> to raise these points.
>>
>> -Narahari
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Vincent Mayers <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> we outgrew the Galleria sorry.
>>>
>>> We have 1800 people attending Devnexus this year, the highest attendance
>>> it has ever been, so it seems like it's not as big a turn off as you would
>>> imagine :) and we are paying for parking... sorry its not for you
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Vincent
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Friends:
>>>>
>>>> I am not sure if this has been hashed multiple times but in our
>>>> internal conversation at the company and with friends, the location of
>>>> DEVNEXUS being in downtown is BIG TURN OFF.
>>>>
>>>> I feel that one of the great interest on DEVNEXUS was the cobb galleria.
>>>>
>>>> What was the factor that made this to be in downtown ?
>>>>
>>>> Could we not find CobbGalleria to be sufficient  enough ?
>>>>
>>>> Was there polling done to find the interest of local people and remote
>>>> people ?
>>>>
>>>> Was there an email discussing the reasons on all these ?
>>>>
>>>> -N
>>>>
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