@aral Does that mean that you boycott conferences that can't afford it?
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@Kid_Desimo Conferences can afford it if they feel it’s important enough. -
@aral Fair enough. In other news, how did@slideandstage go? -
@Kid_Desimo T’was a blast, thanks for asking :) Wish I had the time to run it again.
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@aral : name them. -
@swardley Euro IA. -
@aral : You're saying http://www.euroia.org/ charges people to attend and to speak? Ah, just seen the registration - https://www.asis.org/Conferences/EuroIA/euroiaregform-2013.html … -
@aral : 280 Euro for the "honour" of speaking? I need my garden mowed, anyone want to do it, I'll charge 1,000 euro for the honour? LOL -
@swardley Doesn’t sit well with me at all. Especially having 2 classes of speakers. I don’t care which one I get included in. Don’t like it. -
@aral : it's why I like cloud camp. No fee to attend, we even provide beer and pizza, no speaker fees, no vendor slots ... and the red card!
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@aral lol I could probably think of a worse insult -
@pixelpanda You could pee on them as they entered. That’d probably be worse :)
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@aral@glynmoody I spoke in an I/O keynote and wasn’t even allowed to *buy* a ticket. True story. -
@shaver@glynmoody wtf??? :)
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@aral What about academic-like conferences? Most attendees there are speakers; if no-one paid, it wouldn't work. -
@twistedsq I avoid academic confs for those reasons—if you respect the experience of your attendees you vet & take care of your speakers. -
@aral But 50 people attend, 35 speak, surely the 15 can't pay for the conference? Or do you only mean invited speakers?
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@aral hilarious! Who? -
@mikebutcher A conference called Euro IA — chair’s defence was that EVERYONE [sic] pays (‘including me’). Great example of rite of passage. -
@aral@mikebutcher yes, but one more then the other. Even speaker don't get an early bird discount by the looks of it
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