[Chicago] Pycon in Chicago?

[Robert Zeh]

I believe this blog entry covers the financial side fairly well:
http://jessenoller.com/blog/2011/05/25/pycon-everybody-pays

The relevant bits:
That 230k number? Right around the amount PyCon 2009 lost, representing a
massive financial loss for the Python Software Foundation.
We made various commitments in 2008 just as the markets were peaking, and
we lost a lot of money when everything went south. Since then, it has been
our budget policy to make sure that our revenues will cover our hard costs
even if there is a 15% dip in attendance and a 35% dip in sponsorship.

Robert



On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Adam "Cezar" Jenkins <emperorcezar at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Ah. I believe you're right. One of them was a big loss. I've heard all
> kinds of reasons, all rumors so I won't go repeating them.
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Naomi Ceder <naomi.ceder at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Jason Wirth <wirth.jason at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> >> If there is a bid from Chicago, it will have to be a good one. I
>>> remember that 08 was a huge loss for the PSF.
>>>
>>> I was just getting into Python around 2008 and didn't know much about
>>> the language, it's culture, nor it's conferences. What happened to make the
>>> event a loss?
>>>
>>> I believe it was 2009 and the great crash that was the money losing
>> year. 2008 was a reasonable success, enough so that things were expanded to
>> cover 2 hotels, so with the crash the losses were impressive, over $200K,
>> IIRC.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> I'd think Chicago would be an excellent choice--plenty of hotels and
>>> large convention spaces (although are there union issues?), easy public
>>> transit as well as multiple airports, access from both coasts, etc....
>>>
>>> The only downside, as far as I can tell, is that Chicago doesn't have a
>>> "geek" culture like Silicon Valley.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jason Wirth
>>>     213.675.5294
>>>     wirth.jason at gmail.com
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Adam "Cezar" Jenkins <
>>> emperorcezar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If there is a bid from Chicago, it will have to be a good one. I
>>>> remember that 08 was a huge loss for the PSF.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Brantley Harris <deadwisdom at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I agree with this.  After all PyCon has never been in Chicago as I do
>>>>> not consider Rosemont to be Chicago.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Jason Wirth <wirth.jason at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I recently saw that Pycon is looking for alternative locations.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://pycon.blogspot.com/2013/03/looking-for-2016-2017-host-cities.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What are people's thoughts on Chicago as a location?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
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>>>>>>     213.675.5294
>>>>>>     wirth.jason at gmail.com
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