On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Gunther Birznieks wrote:
> 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.
Yes I did, after I sent that mail to the mod_perl list. FWIW, I could see
this coming since April, but hoped I would be wrong. Attendance at XML Dev
Con was very very low, as was ApacheCon, and I wondered if Camelot could
keep up their expansion (they seemed to have doubled in staff since a year
prior) in the current economic climate.
> >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. :(
I doubt it's the last one we'll see fall... I suspect TPC will be a shadow
of its former self... :(
Ah well, at least a lot of people owe me a beer :-)
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