Gel, It is a common practice for people to set up "hospitality suites" at conventions and conferences. They are a winked at practice that most conference organizers like. It saves them the expense of having to provide the same on the convention floor. Fewer expenses mean a better bottom line.
Reading the description of what happened at the devcon, I wasn't able to attend, struck me with the feeling that Macromedia was hostile towards the idea of a hospitality suite sponsored by someone besides themselves. That is a bad pactice on thier part. I for one will not attend a MM sponsored event in the future, except for user group events. Thier behavior will affect thier bottom line, minisculely, but there will be some affect. Russel > -----Original Message----- > From: Angel Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 1:01 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: so how is dev con? > > > But Mike.. > > If you throwing a fete right? > And advertising Free Drinks and bare naked ladies all night...right? > > And I throw a fete on the same night, one house down from yours, and I > advertise Free Drinks, Gift giveaways AND bare naked ladies... > > How yuh go feel? Yuh wouldn't get upset? > > Not to mention you did all this with the intention of showing them a > forms as to the power of the CF-Community thing. > > So...I could understand where they coming from when they get upset and > take down bulletins and thing. > > I don't know the specifics of what went on between you and MM...but just > on the surface I see where they coming from, any individual would dig a > horrors if that happened, far less for a company. > > and is not really a slap in the face to the Community or anything like > that. > > But that's just my opinion..I could be wrong :) > > -Gel > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > They don't, but that shouldn't stop them from taking advantage of a > resource that I'm providing. And yes, in a big way we are stealing their > > thunder and showing what a farse their 'commitment to the community' > really > is. The only real commitment that I've seen is the user group support > and > that's due to one and only one person; Amy. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
