Symbiotic conference planning ideas
Vancouver is certainly not a day trip for me. If the conference ends up being there, I will undoubtably try to see if I can combine the trip with other things. When planning the last SOAPBuilders and DevCon, we intentionally made it so that people could plan to attend both. The last ApacheCon was near Comdex for similar reasons.
Now look at the speakers to the last O'Reilly ETCON. Or SuperNova. The next ones are in May/Santa Clara and June/Washington DC respectively. Perhaps some of the interesting people could be encouraged to come early and/or stay after...
Imagine a caravan full of RTP bloggers descending on Washington DC in June...