You couldn’t have announced this at a better time. My company’s currently setting the budget for this year’s events, and needless to say AEA Seattle 2007 is our choice again. We’ll be there with bells on.

Incidentally, will you be setting aside more time for site/code reviews? Last year the time slot was woefully short.

See you there!

Alternately, I might also recommend doing at one of the ski resorts west of Denver. They all have ample conference space, and it makes for a nice locale, in the winter or the summer, with plenty of outside activities.

First off, we knew that with the increase in size, we’d need to base at least half our calendar on cities where we’d already found strong support. Seattle and Chicago were two such, and Boston was pretty obvious given its proximity to other strong-response cities from 2006 like New York and Philadelphia.

Second, Denver is reasonably close to Seattle, so we knew that Denverites could fairly easily make it to Seattle, or to California, which is another planned 2007 destination. Of course, the reverse applies: were we to choose Denver, folks from the west coast can get there pretty easily, and Denver could also draw from the center of the country. In the end, we felt it a better choice to go back to Seattle, being one of our biggest hits of 2006, and put off Denver until a later time.

So it’s a very strong candidate for 2008. Assuming we were to choose Denver, what would you say are the best months to hold a conference there?