Christopher Mahan wrote:
What's the chance of your manager eating the cost of a
recording/transcript then?
At a starting point of $50/hour for audio to written transcript
production, and going up beyond $150/hour depending on accuracy,
timeliness and other attributes, probably not.
I don't want to attend; I want to know what was said.
Paraphrasing, "I don't want to expend the effort to participate
in the community, but I want someone else to, so I can benefit
from the things that the community does. Oh, and I don't want
to be bored by the result, so make it easy and interesting for
me."
Putting it that way, it all starts to sound a bit selfish,
doesn't it?
Taking a step back, though, I see that the Local User Group concept
is showing its age in the tiny digital flat world we live in.
Or, maybe, it is an aspect of making this tiny digital flat
world we live in a bit less impersonal and more approachable.
In my opinion, an interactive user group session is very much
more than simply a sterile recording/transcript of one part of
a presentation - it is a mix of who you sat with, the side
comments/conversations, the emotional recharge of being
with other like-minded enthusiasts, the bidirectional
feedback loop where your comments influence other people's
future behavior, etc. You simply can't capture all that
in an online read-only text transcript.
Some people thrive on high volume aliases like this one; others
live just to spread flame bait, while others couldn't give a damn
about anyone who isn't actively committing code. Different
strokes for different folks, y'know...
-John
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