Rick Schummer <> wrote: > The number one reason people don't attend conferences is the direct > availability of content on the Internet. A distant second is cost. > This is based on direct feedback I have received from developers. The > facts are plain and simple. Conference attendance has gone down year > after year and content on the Internet has gone up. I meet people at > every conference who are surprised to learn the networking is such a > big benefit. Everyone who attends a conference knows this is a huge > benefit.
Working for some companies that wouldn't foot the bill for me to attend over the past 16 years, it is first cost and loosing an employee over the days of travel and conference. Cost is the airfare, lodging, meals and the conference cost itself. Second, you or your boss think you/they know it all and therefore you don't need to go to a conference. Third, because they are not part of an online community, they have no idea it was going on. Stephen Russell DBA / Operations Developer Memphis TN 38115 901.246-0159 http://spaces.msn.com/members/srussell/ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.5/450 - Release Date: 9/18/2006 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
