What Do You Look For In a Conference? 186
Michael Lato writes "I've been a speaker at several Information Technology conferences and I know that I use conferences as both an opportunity to gain new skills and to network with my peers. In hopes of assisting others, I've started my own conference in order to boost the soft skills of computer professionals. However, we may need to cancel due to a lack of attendees. What are people looking for in a conference in the midst of this recession? Have we missed the mark in thinking topics like project management and remote team leadership will be well-received?"
Oh my God! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Location Location Location... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Location Location Location... (Score:5, Funny)
We know what you want, but what about the professionals?
In other words (Score:5, Funny)
You're a self absorbed douchebag who got a taste of reality when nobody wanted to attend your coma inducing conference.
Free hookers like the climate conference (Score:5, Funny)
This sort of thing only seems to happen at the political conferences, not the technical ones.
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Copenhagen's city council in conjunction with Lord Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards out to 160 Copenhagen hotels urging COP15 guests and delegates to 'Be sustainable - don't buy sex'.
"Dear hotel owner, we would like to urge you not to arrange contacts between hotel guests and prostitutes," the approach to hotels says.
Now, Copenhagen prostitutes are up in arms, saying that the council has no business meddling in their affairs. They have now offered free sex to anyone who can produce one of the offending postcards and their COP15 identity card, according to the Web site avisen.dk.
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http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,665182,00.html
What Do You Look For In a Conference? (Score:4, Funny)
What Do *I* Look For In a Conference?
The exit to the buffet / bar.
Re:What Do You Look For In a Conference? (Score:3, Funny)
Worst conference I was ever at was an IBM conference. Most of it was the same buzz-word heavy bullshit, but I remember one laughably bad little meeting IBM sales reps had with us VARs, where about the most substance there was was how many colors the computers should be. The fucking thing was an hour and a half long.
Most disappointing was attending the launching of OS/2 Warp 4, where the buttholes at IBM didn't even hand out OS/2 install CDs, but a fucking slide show CD that played on Windows!
In both cases the food sucked.
Re:Oh my God! (Score:3, Funny)
Free shit
Careful now, you know how literal these sciency types can be.
So, I have a garden. It beats having to buy it at Home Depot.
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Re:Simple (Score:4, Funny)
Look, it was two midgets and a mule, and maybe its owner (or possibly Art Gufunkel). I don't know why people can't get the story straight.
Re:Location Location Location... (Score:3, Funny)
I look for good, decently matched football teams. It makes the games much more interesting.
Enough Vodka for Russians? (Score:3, Funny)
How much is that?
All of it?
Re:Location Location Location... (Score:3, Funny)
Why did Tiger hit both the tree and the hydrant....?
.....Because he couldn't decide between the wood and the iron.....
Re:Free hookers like the climate conference (Score:5, Funny)
No, the surprise is the prostitutes. ;)
Re:Free software. (Score:2, Funny)
I tried that, but the handouts were yawners. I'll trade you 3,827 AOL disks for your SQL-Server.
Re:In other words (Score:3, Funny)
Seems an elephant sat on the Honesty Button there.