Moving from Portland to the hustle and bustle of the Silicon Valley, OSCON, the mother of all Open Source conferences, offered a wide variety of tutorials and presentations to 2,800 attendees.
Moving OSCON to San Jose at the south end of the San Francisco Bay Area allowed many local IT professionals to attend the conference without traveling. But the current daunting economic climate with an unusually high unemployment rate prevented many potential attendees from spending US$ 2000 for the five-day-long series of tutorials and presentations. Recently, open-source projects have moved to narrowly focused, low-budget, grass-roots conferences, which would explain the relatively low turnout of high-profile community leaders this year at OSCON.
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