Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: > On Tuesday 08 November 2005 14:23, Leif Madsen wrote: >> Actually, that price has a lot to do with the actual costs >> involved in actually arranging a conference like this. There >> is flight costs, hotel costs, renting an exhibit hall, paying >> for our time, and for any materials which are given to >> attendees. You'd be surprised how quickly these kinds of >> things can add up. Believe me, we're not getting rich off of >> this :) > > For a meet and greet with the intention of getting more > Asterisk users, Digium is going to have to eat a lot of these > costs (file it under "advertising" or "marketing") -- I am > aware that these things cost a lot of money but asking someone > to shell out US$200 to come and see what Asterisk is about is > ... well ... not realistic. > > Mind you "Meet Asterisk" doesn't exactly say a lot about > what's going to be happenning there. The event description > certainly doesn't make it sound US$200-worthy.
The trick of it is probably going to be the audience. If they're looking for us Asterisk-geeks to show up, well, we can pick Leif's brains for the price of a couple of beers (although too many and his answers may stop relating to the question ;-). For a corporate entity looking for a more formal look at this new-fangled open-source telecom phenomenon, I suspect they'll find their money was well spent. The folks at IPSandO have produced some very well regarded seminars, conferences, training and what-all else. For a manager with a $10,000 training budget per employee (pretty typical in telecom, if I recall), that $200 would be well spent, I'd warrant. <plug>Or you can buy our book</plug> Jim. -- Jim Van Meggelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2177 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.8/162 - Release Date: 05/11/2005
