[Talk-ca] [Talk-us] SOTM US Portland - Call for participation

[Bill Ricker]

On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Stewart C. Russell <scruss at gmail.com> wrote:

> Pfft ... host it in Franklin, then it could be in any one of 17 states -
> GA, ID, IN, IA, KY, LA, MA, MN, MO, NE, NH, OH, PA, TN, TX, VA, or WI!
> Springfield comes in at #5 in the popular city names, if my frantic
> grepping of the TIGER database is correct.
>

More useful for distributed function space availability would be ranking by
population of the low quartile, not strict count.   I don't know off-hand
which is the largest Franklin, but real competition is for smallest.

Both N.E. Franklin's are fairly  small (8k and 30k pop).  I'll be driving
near Franklin MA today; it's a speedtrap between the Wrentham Premium
Outlets Mall and the suburb of Milford whose greatest export is soccer-mom
T-shirts. Probably has a wedding reception banquet hall we could use, but
getting bandwidth and  A-V for a distributed event would be a challenge
without renting the big-dish-truck.

(Yes i know All Springfields was likely a joke. I wish it were true. Mary
Kay cosmetics has done distributed annual meetings for years, why are we
techies traveling? Oh, right, microbrews.)

-- 
Bill
@n1vux bill.n1vux at gmail.com
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