xml-dev - Re: Random XTech observations

["Frank Boumphrey" <bckman@ix.netcom.com>]

If you're relying on
> self-selected people who can afford their own plane tickets and hotel
> rooms, it's no great surprise you get a lot of marketeers pitching
> products

This is all very true.

In academic conferences the people speaking are academics, and one of the
perks of being an academic is that the University usually picks up the Tag.

Xtech2000 had all the hall-marks of being an academic conference without
the main speakers being Academic.

The thing that suprised me was how few naked pitches there were! In fact the
academic quality of the papers was extreamly hgh.

Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: Didier PH Martin <martind@netfolder.com>
To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>; <xml-dev@xml.org>
Cc: <xml-dev@xml.org>
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 11:24 AM
Subject: RE: Random XTech observations


> Hi Eliotte,
>
> Eliotte said:
> One thing I think is crucial to running a conference with solid
> speakers is actively recruiting and paying them. If you're relying on
> self-selected people who can afford their own plane tickets and hotel
> rooms, it's no great surprise you get a lot of marketeers pitching
> products. This also helps you get presenters who know how to present.
> The two most recent conferences I attended, the LinuxWorld and Bazaar
> conferences in NYC, were mostly free of marketing fluff, but they had
> a lot of open source hackers who clearly were more comfortable in
> front of a monitor than an audience.
>
> Didier replies:
> Elliott, in a world where the word "to pay" is bad and the word "free" is
> perceived as the symbol of the new economy. The new economy in which we do
> not know how people are getting the money they need to live. To said that
is
> courageous and demonstrate common sense and wisdom. After all, money do
not
> grow in trees :-)) (if "free" something people already know in which tree
> species money is growing, please send me an email, I am probably the last
> fool not knowing that :-))
>
> Off course we'll get marketing stuff if people have to pay for their
> airplane, their hotel, etc... (except for people already financially
> independent or consultants marketing themselves).
>
> Cheers
> Didier PH Martin
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