Yeah, yeah, everyone wants it in their own backyard :-) We're not yet at
the point where we can do one in every time zone, but this year we'll be
having them pretty equally spaced around the globe: California, Europe, and
Japan. If things keep growing like they have been, we'll certainly add
more locations.
>I'm not flying all the way to California
>(again) just to attend educational sessions when so much of the information
>is already available on the web, these forums, the newsgroups.
PalmSource is a great opportunity for us to release new info, and it worked
really well last year with the color stuff and the rest of 3.5. If you
look at track 2 you might infer that something similar would happen this
year :-) But not everything is software; hardware can't be posted on a web
site!
The info will find its way out to the web site and such not too long after,
but it is much more than just the information that makes PalmSource
worthwhile. An amazingly large amount of people say that the chance to
interact/network with the other developers alone is worth the price of
admission. That's something you don't get except by being there, and
having lots of regional events doesn't capture that value as much.
Ask some folks who were there last year: you get different opinions from
attendees than those who are guessing what it'd be like. I'm not saying
that you're wrong and that you simply have to be there; I'm suggesting that
there's lots more than what you can get from reading a web page or watching
on a screen.
>Perhaps Palm should rent a few channels on DirecTV and make the tracks
>PayPerView... Perhaps Palm can videotape everything and make available,
>for a fee,
>streaming sessions on line for those of us with a decent Internet
>connection.
The biggest sessions do get videotaped and there's a company that sells
them. I imagine that streaming the sessions over the net wouldn't be
infeasible, though I'm sure the logistics folks would wring my neck if they
heard me say that. And DirecTV would be quite an interesting/odd idea :-)
-David Fedor
Palm Developer Support
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