James, > To be a bit mercenary (hey, it's my job, I'm Plumbers treasurer this > year) our sponsors are mostly the same companies. If we combine > LSF/MM and Plumbers, I can't see too many of them stepping up to > sponsor us twice, so we'll have a net loss of sponsor funding for the > combined event as well. This is likely another argument for doing two > separately sponsored events. Yep. And I do think it's beneficial to have two developer-focused events per year. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering