On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 01:48 -0400, Tom DeReggi wrote: > How in the world could you distort my comment to mean "vendors are evil"? > I made a comment to PROTECT Vendors' interests.
Here is exactly what I responded to: > On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 16:26 -0400, Tom DeReggi wrote: > >> If a vendor knows the webinar is public archived, they may hold back > >> important information to protect their strategic interests. The idea that a vendor will "hold back important information" is just silly. My comment may have been overly "strong", and, if so, I apologize if you feel I distorted your statement. Either way, your later comments did not make me (as a vendor) feel like you were attacking (where this one, along with MANY of your posts) did/do. > It is common practice for radio manufacturers to keep the details of their > products confidential from other competitors in the market space. Yeah, so what? You mean to say that if you just tell them "we aren't recording", they will reveal something that they would not do if a session were being recorded? How can you assure them that their competitors would not be in attendance at the LIVE seminar? Oh, wait, you can't. Maybe they will be no more likely to reveal corporate secrets whether recorded or not. Wait, that last sentence is EXACTLY what I said the first time. Maybe this time you will read the rest of the message. > Atleast 50% of the manufacturers I have delt with over the years have asked > for NDAs before sending me a manual, detailed feature set, or price sheet. Not sure who you've dealt with, but MOST of the vendors (in particular, UBNT, who we are talking about for the first session) posts this information on their website. > It is ONLY RESPECTFUL to ask the vendors presenting whether they DO or DO > NOT want their Q&A / presentations archived. 1. IF this is a session being promoted by WISPA for it's membership, then any vendor asked to present should be TOLD that we WILL be recording and providing the session for current and FUTURE members. 2. IF any vendor cannot live with reality number 1, then they should not be allowed to participate in these sessions. This is really a simple formula to follow. That is, after all, the whole purpose for WISPA promoting these events. > These presentations are Q&A where the vendors are likely to get blind-sided > by questions that they might not be prepared to answer optimally. > Q&A is great for the WISP attendees, but the vendor may not want their > non-optimal unprepaired answers to be the ones Posted to the wide world of > Membership to permanently judge them by. This is pretty simple, too. The archives will be placed on a WIKI. That being the case, we can simply permit the vendors to make comments directly below the link to the recording. > As a matter of fact, every conference that I have ever spoken at, had a > proceedure for getting a paper signed that the presentation would or > wouldn't be able to be archived for future read. I have spoken at a LOT of conferences. This has never been an issue for me. Nobody has ever asked. I know, without question, that WISPCON, ISPCON, MUM, IT Expo and COMDEX do not require this. Many of those record (or did) sessions. I have never signed a release. > I didn't say archiving was a BAD idea? I didn't say Vendors wouldn't want it > done. I said we shouldn't assume they do and archive it without permission > or release. Read my 2 points above. If someone does not want to offer this as a member benefit, then they should participate in WISPA in another way. It seems pretty simple to me. -- ******************************************************************** * Butch Evans * Professional Network Consultation* * http://www.butchevans.com/ * Network Engineering * * http://www.wispa.org/ * Wired or Wireless Networks * * http://blog.butchevans.com/ * ImageStream, Mikrotik and MORE! * ******************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
