It is becoming more common. At IDUG in May there will be no handouts (but the attendees will get a DVD with all the presentations.)
Mark Hammond -----Original Message----- It is more and more likely that you will see fewer and fewer handouts at SHARE in the future. The trend seems to be toward not 'requiring' or not 'suggesting' that speakers provide handouts for their sessions. A position that I very strongly support. Providing handouts is expensive. I paid $122 for the 25 handouts for my session. That's $122 that I would much rather spend on other things. A large number of attendees bring laptops and/or Blackberrys to the conference. Most presenters (like myself) will put the presentation on the SHARE web site well before SHARE. You are certainly welcome to download the presentation at any time, even when you are sitting in the session so that you can follow along. Open up Word or your fave text editor and take notes. Make a note of the page number so that it's easy to keep track of which note relates to which page. It doesn't take much to look at the handouts table on Friday morning to see how much paper is just going to be *wasted* when SHARE is done. Shame, shame... This needs to change. Warner Mach wrote: > This is slightly off-topic, but relevant. > . > SHARE is now wrapping up and was, as usual, highly > worthwhile ... However, one aspect bothers me greatly: > That is a new emphasis on 'being green.' And how does > SHARE propose to save the planet? A: By encouraging > speakers to NOT pass out the customary handouts which > show the slides to be presented during their talk. > The assumption is that attendees can later download > the presentation slides from the web if they so desire. > . > One speaker actually suggested that the attendee might > take notes on a pad of some sort (remember college?) and > then download the presentation and transfer the notes to > the presentation; rather than write the notes directly > on the presentation handout, as was customary. > . > It is interesting how companies and organizations are > eager to show their alignment with 'green-ness' when being > green corresponds with less expense and trouble for those > in charge. > . > To my mind there are a world of good reasons why this new > policy is a bad one (fill in the blanks). I asked at the > headquarters desk where to send comments on the new policy. > I was told: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > . > If you are a member of SHARE and have an opinion on this > issue you might drop them a line. Let's discourage this trend > before a large number of speakers adopt it. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- Rich Smrcina VM Assist, Inc. Phone: 414-491-6001 Ans Service: 360-715-2467 rich.smrcina at vmassist.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/richsmrcina Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2008 - Chattanooga - April 18-22, 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
