http://simonwillison.net/2011-12-24T14:49:00+00:00Simon Willison2011-12-24T14:49:00+00:002011-12-24T14:49:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2011/Dec/24/is-portland-or-a/#atom-tag

<p><em>My answer to <a href="https://www.quora.com/Is-Portland-OR-a-good-location-for-a-major-content-strategy-conference/answer/Simon-Willison">Is Portland, OR a good location for a major content strategy conference?</a> on Quora</em></p> <p>I can't comment on the relevance to Content Strategy, but having been to both OSCON and DjangoCon in Portland a few times I think it's an absolutely superb city for hosting a conference.</p> <p>Good facilities, a free tram service that covers the main venues and hotels, superb food, small enough to be walkable but large enough to deal with a large number of conference delegates - and it's a great city in its own right hence a desirable destination for potential attendees.</p> <p>I live in London, but Portland is probably my favourite US city for attending a conference. I can't wait to get back there - in fact I liked it so much I took my wife there for our wedding anniversary.</p> <p>It looks like there will be at least one Content Strategy related conference in Portland next year though - LavaCon 2012 is set to take place in October: <span><a href="http://lavacon.org/portland/">http://lavacon.org/portland/</a></span> and <span><a href="http://lanyrd.com/2012/lavacon/">http://lanyrd.com/2012/lavacon/</a></span></p> <p>You can also subscribe to our RSS or iCal feeds of content strategy events in Portland here: <span><a href="http://lanyrd.com/topics/content-strategy/in/portland/">http://lanyrd.com/topics/content...</a></span></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/conferences">conferences</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/quora">quora</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/portland">portland</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/contentstrategy">contentstrategy</a></p>