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Sorry but I don't really understand that last part - is Portland, OR a likely place for tech conferences to take place?
by parsecs 6y ago
Sorry but I don't really understand that last part - is Portland, OR a likely place for tech conferences to take place?
- ghaff 6y agoIt's not a super-common conference spot but it's where O'Reilly's OSCON mostly happened for many years pre-pandemic (when O'Reilly shut down their events business) for example. And there's a lot of other relatively low-level open source-adjacent activities there. Puppet Labs is located there for example. Certainly a bigger conference location than Portland, ME in general which I don't think even has a convention center and doesn't have more than regional flights into the airport.
- umanwizard 6y agoPortland, OR is just a much more major city than Portland, ME.
- seanmcdirmid 6y agoPortland OR gets a lot of tech conference businesses because it has a lot of techies and it’s affordable compared to any other city on the west coast (only Vancouver BC comes close). I seem to attend a conference or meeting there once every 2 years or so.