Re: A real community service

[Ben Trafford <ben@legendary.org>]

At 03:59 PM 3/1/2001 -0800, Tim Bray wrote:
>I notice the announcement of yet another Real Big XML
>Conference (http://www.sys-con.com/xmledge/, wow, there's
>gonna be 5,000 people there, amazing)...... when will this
>conference madness end?
>
>This list contains a lot of people who might go to these
>things, also people who speak at them.  It would be really
>great if somebody would do an honest no-BS breakdown of
>what's good and lousy about these various conferences, also
>how many people are there (really), who actually runs them,
>and so on.  -Tim

         Sounds like a job for XML.com! Leaps tall buildings in a single 
bound! Presents unbiased XML news! Keeps me from reading the archives of 
every mailing list on the planet!

         And now...rates conferences?!

--->Ben