Would it help if they moved the conference around? I think having it in the same location really limits it as many folk who can't afford to travel would probably jump at the chance to go if it was local(assuming it was affordable...I have seen conferences that were very high priced to the point that if your employed didn't pay for it, I could see why attendance would be low). I wonder if something like that would help increase it's profitability. That might also encourage local sponsors. Let's say it was in Chicago, I think that Chicago area businesses would be more likely to be sponsors than if the conference was in LA.
-----Original Message----- From: Sean Corfield [mailto:seancorfi...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 12:16 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Best conference? On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:32 AM, DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT) <sd1...@att.com> wrote: > So... Did anyone else get the email stating that this year would be the > LAST CFUnited conference? Yup, and the blog posts and the flood of tweets :) Michael (Smith, TeraTech) explained that the reason is financial. They lost a lot of money last year and can't afford to do it any more. Big conferences cost a LOT of money to put on and it's almost impossible to break even let alone make money on them. Most big conferences are run by corporations as loss-leaders for marketing purposes. The pure developer conferences need lots of sponsorship dollars and the recession's made that difficult - and the recession has meant fewer attendees as well which means less revenue for the conference (and they have to commit to a venue well in advance so it's not like they can suddenly say "Oh, we have half as many attendees this year, let's find a smaller, cheaper venue!"). -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:335382 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
