Just like to chip in and say that food and location should definately be secondary to content. Food at both CFUNITED and at CFDEVCON was good IMHO. They are both CF conferences and the most important thing is to learn more about using CF and related technologies. Some of that comes about by attending relevant sessions and some by chatting to other delegates and speakers.
I can deffinately do without the extra fluff - I would rather not get a 'goody bag' full of expensively printed stuff (although I know that is mainly at sponsors expense), I would rather be able to talk and share coding ideas and concepts in sessions and workshops. I would like to see more 'coding kitchen' type sessions where (if you have a laptop) you can follow along with some code and learn new stuff from the experts. As it happens the flex coding kitchen at CFUNITED06 was not the best example, but I thing the concept is a good one and should be expanded. It would be nice if there were some laptops to loan for those unable to bring one. On 11/18/06, Snake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well I only gave food as an example. It could be anything. > > It I take my cfdevcon survey as another example. > A lot of people stated they found the location, accomodation and food > unsatisfactory, but still said they were overall satisfied with the > conference and would come again next year. > So while I will be improving things next year, I wont be going overboard > as > I still want to keep if affordable, especially for those that can't afford > to go to CFUNITED, which I can't. What with the price of the conference, > plus plane fares and hotels it is literally 3 months salary for me. > > Russ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Charlie Griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 17 November 2006 23:20 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: CFUnited 2007 Pricing > > I'll go on record as saying i thought there was absolutely nothing wrong > with the food. most conferences (at least, ones that i've been > to) offer a boxed lunch that consists of a pre-made ham and > cheese-like-substance sandwich... and a coke. Really, the food at > CFUnited was fine (better than fine) IMO. > > C'mon people...think before you act. What if (heaven forbid) somebody on > the board or at Teratech listen to you and improve the food...and what if > they have to pull funds from the open bar night in order to do > that??? /me > shakes head. now *that* would be a travesty. > > > > On 11/17/06, Simon Horwith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I thought the food was fine, too... but if enough people want better > > food, TeraTech will try to give them better food. Personally, I can > > think of several things I'd rather see the money go towards, but I'm > > one person. > > > > ~Simon > > > > Simon Horwith > > CIO, AboutWeb - http://www.aboutweb.com Editor-in-Chief, ColdFusion > > Developers Journal Adobe Community Expert Adobe Certified Master > > Instructor Blog - http://www.horwith.com > > > > > > > > > > Munson, Jacob wrote: > > >> Would you prefer a 5* conference venue, restaurant quality > > >> food, lots of > > >> staff, lots of bells and whitles and spend 3 months of your > > >> salary to get > > >> there. > > >> > > >> Just because someone says the food sucked in they survey > > >> answers, doesn't > > >> neccisarily mean they want to pay $200 more next year for it > > >> to be better? > > >> > > > > > > Personally, I thought the food was fine last year. If that was one of > > > the most common complaints, I don't know what everybody is complaining > > > about. And I agree, I don't care to pay more to have 'better' > food. I > > > also don't really care about nicer social events. I like the > > > networking, but I'd be just as happy in a community room full of > CFers, > > > than at a fancy party where I can get free drinks. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "EMF <idahopower.com>" made the following annotations. > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > > > This transmission may contain information that is privileged, > confidential and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you > are > not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, > copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein > (including > any reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you received this > transmission in error, please immediately contact the sender and destroy > the > material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank > you. > > > > > > > > ============================================================================ > == > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:261013 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
