At 03:44 PM 7/15/2001 +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote:
>Looks like Camelot, the organisers of ApacheCon (and other conferences,
>such as XML Dev Con - a conference I've spoken at a number of times), are
>going out of business. Those of you who know the employees at Camelot will
Odd, I got the letter for ApacheCon speakers talking about payment to
speakers which I would think you got as well.
>know they always went out of their way to help the speakers at various
>conferences, and I would venture to say they were one of the better
>organised conferences I've attended. Sad to see them go.
I too am sad. I did not know the conference producers well, but I
personally thought the plane + hotel + conference fee paid to all speakers
EVEN 1 HOUR talk speakers was really generous. I can usually understand
paying those things for tutorial speakers, but giving all that for 1 hour
talk speakers was amazingly generous though.
But I guess too generous. Anyway, lately conference attendence is down, so
naturally vendors don't want to spend a lot of money on advertising at a
conference, so naturally there's less money to pay for speakers, so
naturally less people want to attend with less speakers, etc....
I hope the downward trend doesn't continue with other good conferences. :(
