At 11:31 AM 7/16/2001 -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
>At 10:46 AM 07/16/01 -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> >Are there any requests other than price for next year? What would you
> >like to see? What could you do without?
>
>Well, this is more along the "price" issue that you don't want to hear about,
>but I much prefer a single fee for everything instead of separate tutorial
>and conference fees. I understand the scheduling hell, but I like the
>flexibility to decide what to attend during the conference. What I attend
>in the morning may influence what I attend in the afternoon.
I am misunderstanding this perhaps. Don't you get this anyway by getting a
slightly larger discount for taking the tutorial and the conference
together? ie is that what you are asking for? To combine the fees so that
it is cheaper?
>And these days more and more people may find themselves like me, paying
>their own way. I'm very disappointed that I had to cancel after adding
>everything up.
In today's economy it's perhaps true. In the economy of 2 years ago, it
seems like a business would consider it a perk to send their developer to a
conference because they were scrambling to keep their programmers anyway
they could (conferences is one way if their organization won't allow a
raise in salary). But now many programmers are fortunate to have a job.
Although there are still pockets of companies willing to pay for
conferences, it's probably quite lower.
Well, at least if you want a cheap conference there is always YAPC. I would
suspect the O'Reilly brand unfortunately probably prevents doing things
that involve having a truly on-the-cheap conference. Of course, by cheap I
don't mean "bad". Just a different way of handling a conference and a
different vibe/level of coordination and # of talks etc...
Later,
Gunther
