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May 27, 2005
PalmSource DevCon Attendance Up Nearly 50%
According to this eWeek article from 2004, roughly 700 people attended the 2004 PalmSource Developer's Conference. This year, there were around 1,000 attendees at the conference (which ended yesterday), an increase of nearly 50%. Not bad considering there was no major announcement this year.
Also, LinuxDevices.com has a nifty interview with two PalmSource execs about what the whole "Palm OS for Linux" thing really means. Read it here.
Comments
Some of the increase in attendance may be due to the much more aggressive pricing structure for registration this year: PalmSource extended the "early bird" deals quite a lot, and also had deep discounts for multiple attendees (claiming to be) from the same company. They clearly wanted more people, and I'm glad it worked out for them.
Posted by: Edward Keyes at May 29, 2005 12:43 AM
Ed!!! Holy cow, nice to hear from you, man. For those of you who don't know who Ed Keyes is, he was a fixture in the nascent Palm community back when the Pilot first came out. He authored Hackmaster (yep!) and Dinkypad, among other apps (speaking of which, when is Hackmaster going off beta, Ed? ;-).
Oh, and yes, you may be right, Ed. Regardless, they were planning on 500 and got nearly double that, so I think it worked out well.
Posted by: Craig at May 29, 2005 9:01 AM
Heh heh, probably around the same time a Cobalt device ships. ;-)
Posted by: Edward Keyes at May 29, 2005 1:01 PM
Ah, well you better get working on it, then...I saw at least one production-quality Cobalt device (a phone) being displayed at one of the booths at the DevCon. The vendor said it was coming out this summer.
Posted by: Craig at May 29, 2005 1:52 PM
Cool, was that the GSPDA or the Oswin device, or some other vendor? Heh, maybe I should have clarified "in America" to give myself a little more breathing room...
Posted by: Edward Keyes at May 29, 2005 2:47 PM
Yep, it's the Oswin device. Here's a story with some unbelievably crappy photos:
http://www.allaboutpalm.com/news/item/Oswin_Technologies_Demonstrate_Cobalt_Powered_Smartphone.php
Posted by: Craig at May 30, 2005 1:12 PM