Thanks for your comments guys. Richie, the purpose of this blog was not to say who was worse off in the bargain. The purpose is to highlight a problem. If there were 9-10 attendees in a session, and you feel there could have been more, then that is definitely a problem.

Maybe having fewer sessions is not the way to go. But there are a lot of repeat sessions and others that are scheduled on Thursday. Plus, at least the presenters should be made aware of two main things. First, the implications of having a session at a particular time. Second, what criteria is used to schedule these sessions?

I can appreciate your frustration of being scheduled against Zepperella, Dennis Miller, and Camp Fredda. One point to consider is that the reason that I stumbled on your blog is that I was searching for 2005 presentations. I made the choice to go to the entertainment with the thinking that I could read the presentation later. The fact that you were on the schedule means that people like me will be searching for your content. I attended several late BoFs. My late BoFs had less than 12 people… and the guys like me that chose to go to a session at 9:30 were very critical of the presentator. I raise the point of the critical late audience as a quality metric. You may not have had a big turn out, but the people that came to your session really wanted to be there. That's more important than the large sessions in the middle of the day with people pounding on Blackberries, cell phones, laptops, and taking a snooze.

So I off to look for your presentation, if I can find it

I think that the idea of having fewer sessions is not the way to go. Fewer sessions would mean that some people wouldn't get to present which surely has to be worse than presenting to a smaller audience. At least you know that the people who did attend the BOFs were genuinly interested in the topics being discussed (like me who attended with the 9 other people mentioned above).

50-60 people showed up? Quit bitching. We had 10 people show up. You have nothing to complain about.

Thanks. This is really very informative. Presently I'm involved in migration (actually upgradation) of apps to a higher version of AppServer. It would be great if you can share the material of the above OUTLINE (either MP3 or PDFs) or point to a link/resource on JDJ website.

thnks in advance

Moving to a diff't app server....

Your blog seems to only summarize the presentation.... are there more slides available?

I also found the overlap on Wednesday too much.

jjj

This is something good .keep it up