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Attendees
Posted Jul 2, 2007 19:36 UTC (Mon) by corbet (editor, #1)In reply to: Linux Symposium 2007 - a summary by cjb
Parent article: Linux Symposium 2007 - a summary
The official word is about 100 less than last year. It felt a little smaller than that, but that may just be a result of the new room organization.
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Attendees
Posted Jul 3, 2007 0:11 UTC (Tue) by pzb (subscriber, #656) [Link]
At the closing keynote, a drawing was held for at least a dozen different items and no number drawn was higher than 500. With a dozen draws, this should give a good estimate of the attendance at the keynote.
I would therefore suggest that there were approximately 500 people at OLS this year.
Attendees
Posted Jul 3, 2007 2:37 UTC (Tue) by charlieb (subscriber, #23340) [Link]
> I would therefore suggest that there were approximately 500 people> at OLS this year.
Or perhaps approximately 500 who filled in survey sheets at the closing Keynote Address.
Attendees
Posted Jul 3, 2007 14:51 UTC (Tue) by nevets (subscriber, #11875) [Link]
There were a large number of people that left early and didn't stay for the final key note. I was about to leave too, until someone told me they were giving out PS3's. Unfortunately, I didn't win one.
Attendees
Posted Jul 3, 2007 2:05 UTC (Tue) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link]
It was thoroughly enjoyable, and one hopes that some of the ideas for putting in tracks and tutorial days will bear fruit.As '08 is the 10th anniversary might even LT himself drop in for a syllable or three?
Linus
Posted Jul 6, 2007 14:22 UTC (Fri) by willy (subscriber, #9762) [Link]
When I was on the OLS paper ctte, I tried to get Linus to give a talk (on something ... anything ... even floppy.c), but he just doesn't enjoy giving talks. Never say never, of course, but you'd have to be very persuasive.
Attendees
Posted Jul 3, 2007 18:55 UTC (Tue) by Webexcess (subscriber, #197) [Link]
AJH told me there were "700 something" people this year ("800 something" last year). His view was that the USD-CAD exchange rate was the biggest factor in reducing attendance this year.
Attendees
Posted Jul 3, 2007 19:43 UTC (Tue) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]
Yes, it's a good time for Canadians to come south, with the Canadian dollar over 94 cents (I remember when it was in the 70's).