Due to no-one actually standing up and taking the baton to run with various parts of this damned trade-show I’m getting phone-calls from people asking what the story is with various guests. Whether or not they’re speaking at some other event while they’re over …
Then I get the news that a proposed side-event is clashing with another event likely to cause us to miss out on a large number of Perl hackers …
It all stems from $Organiser not wanting us to have direct contact with speakers / sponsors, yet the speakers and sponsors thinking they’re dealing with us … we’re not getting feedback from $Organiser and then speakers and sponsors expect us to know what’s going on …
I’m ready to LART(5) someone – I swear !
I’ll say this much …
In the immortal words of Clint Eastwood (Heartbreak Ridge) …. “It’s one giant clusterfuck”