[plug] [OT] ish - LCA

[Simon Scott]

----- Original Email -----
From: Jacqueline McNally <jacqueline at decisions-and-designs.com.au>
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Date: 14-Jan-2003 11:36
Subject: Re: [plug] [OT] ish - LCA

> 
> >I dont mean to diss LCA, I just found it hard to define their target
audience.
> 
> It is one of the few conferences that I wish to attend where I don't have 
> to get on a plane. Yes, it is technical, but if you are even remotely 
> involved in Linux and Open Source I don't know how you can not go.

OK, explain why? I guess Im not into the social aspect of it, never having
turned up to a plug meeting :D

> 
> I am an avid book purchaser of non-fiction, but the snippets that you get 
> from real people never make it into a book. In the ICT industry you cannot 
> afford to not keep learning.

errrr, riiight... :D not sure I agree, but OK.

> 
> >Maybe Ill turn up to the dinner and flick mashed potatoes at AC :D
> 
> You mean you will spend $50 for dinner and provide your own entertainment, 
> but you wont invest $99/$250/$550 to attend a six day conference :) Even at

> the professional rate that is only ~$91/day.

Well, for me it would be a 2 day conference (no time off work) and, as I said,
I cant see the value.... I guess Im simply not interested in enough areas all
at once to attend a conference with majorly diverse topics.

If I were a kernel developer and it was a 6 day 'kernel developers' conference
then no problem. But Linux is such a large topic now (especially when you
consider that anything that runs on linux is now defined as 'linux' including
all the GNU tools :) that I fear that the conferences will become more
scattered....


> 
> Another conference I looked at attending on the Gold Coast is $1795 for two

> days!

ouch! Thats a lot of books :D

> 
> I am looking forward to putting faces to names, and seeing and listening to

> people that are passionate about their contribution to Linux and Open
Source.

So is it mostly the social aspect for you, or the 'its linux so you have to
go' kind of thing?

I guess Im really fishing for someone to talk me into it :) - Id love to rock
up to some of the mini-conferences but they're during work hours :( me no
work, me no eat