On Thursday, 24 May 2012 at 19:48:23 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 16:59 +0200, David Nadlinger wrote:
[...]
Great idea – but wasn't ACCU one of those conferences that
are prohibitively expensive if your trip isn't paid by some
company (might misremember that, though)? Being a student
sucks… ;)
Urrrr.... yes. It is a relatively expensive conference. On the
other
hand if you get a presentation accepted the cost goes down very
significantly.
That's a big problem for me.
My company only pays for conferences that are relevant for the
current project, this means only Java and .NET conferences like
Jazoon.
I was even denied access to go to a free Microsoft C++
conference, because if failed the criteria cited above.
The only time I payed for conferences on my own was twice for GDC
Europe, when the cheaper tickets were still available under
500€.
--
Paulo
