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Ben Finney  
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 More options Mar 16 2008, 7:47 am
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From: Ben Finney <bignose+hates-s...@benfinney.id.au>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:47:03 +1100
Local: Sun, Mar 16 2008 7:47 am
Subject: Re: Pycon disappointment
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Bruce Eckel <lists.ec...@gmail.com> writes:
> My trust has been violated. I paid a lot, in both money and time, to
> be at this conference just to be herded into a room and have my
> eyeballs sold to the highest bidder.

Hear hear.

Conference organisers, past and future, take note: Attention of
attendees is *not* a commodity to be traded. Just because some parties
will pay significant sums for that, it is *not* your place to sell it
to them.

Your place as conference organisers, rather, is to provide value to
paying attendees. Their trust is hard earned, and easily lost.

--
 \     "Oh, I realize it's a penny here and a penny there, but look at |
  `\      me: I've worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme |
_o__)                                       poverty."  -- Groucho Marx |
Ben Finney


 
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