Monday, October 05, 2009  Atheist Alliance International
conference, quick version  The Atheist Alliance International
convention took place over the weekend, October 2-4, 2009, at
the Burbank Airport Marriott hotel, and I took my usual level of
notes for the talks I attended. But rather than (or perhaps
temporarily in lieu of) giving detailed summaries of each talk
over the next several weeks, this will be one post with brief
comments on each. If there's demand, I can follow this up with
more detailed posts on individual talks of interest.  There were
over 700 attendees at the conference, and I believe I heard that
last year's conference was about 450. It's not as big as The
Amazing Meeting, but if that rate of growth isn't an artifact of
say, the fact that this conference was co-sponsored by the
Richard Dawkins Foundation for Science and Reason and featured
an unbelievable set of high-powered speakers, then they'll catch
up quickly. The AAI conference participation seemed to be more
diverse than TAM, with a