Well, I'm not the one making that decision. I am on the Board of Advisors and I did express some misgivings about it being in that time frame, but the guy that is putting this all together - Kevin Cully - made that final decision. I'd say that this may be more of a regional conference this year - though we'd like to have anyone come from anywhere - and it may end up being a smaller conference. Then, if he wants to try this undertaking again next year, he may try to scale it up and reposition it.

>I am a little curious - how did you decide upon the conference dates?
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>I am certain that you are aware of the fact the Advisor Devcon is at the end of August and Southwest Fox is scheduled for the end of October.
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>With conference attendance dwindling, my fear is that so much competion for the limited number of potential attendees may have the disasterous effect of putting all of them out of business. This would be a great loss for the community.
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>Having said that, I wish you luck with your endeavor.