On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 12:07:35PM -0700, David Fedor wrote:
> Yeah, yeah, everyone wants it in their own backyard :-)
I vote for Chicago too. :)
> 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.
I'm admittedly in a very small minority, but as a freeware developer
who's not looking for a job, the networking aspects aren't that
important to me. I do enjoy interacting w/ other PalmOS developers,
and I agree that there's a lot at PalmSource that makes it worthwhile.
I went to the first conference (in San Francisco) and thoroughly
enjoyed it, and would recommend attending a conference to anyone who
hasn't.
That said, I probably think of the conference more as a hobbyist
convention than as a business conference, and as such, the attendence
fee to me seems a bit high. I'm still debating whether or not to
attend this year's conference, and the cost is the only thing holding
me back (did I mention I'm a freeware developer? :) ). Of course,
it's my own choice to write freeware, so I'm not complaining...
John
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John Valdes Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
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