Ofcourse developing staff and making them happy could never effect the bottom line.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Waterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 10:08 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Expensive conferences [Was: North Rocks computer markets?] > This one time, at band camp, > Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > <quote who="Steve Kowalik"> > > > > > Damn these conferences are expensive. > > > > It's probably worth pointing out that linux.conf.au is incredibly cheap > > compared to other IT industry conferences. Compare $500 for a 5 day event, > > to $1000 for many day-long introduction or tutorial events, and $4000 for a > > particular two-day usability shin-dig I was interested in going to last > > year. > > As a company director I see little value in participating in this type of > get together. Sending staff to them is just a few days off. > > Kevin > > > -- > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > Kevin Waterson > Port Macquarie, Australia > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
