I understand that. I go there for the same thing. My point was that, the conference needs the attendees as much we want the conference. When I go I'm going for the conference stuff but I have a life and they're asking us to give up that life for maybe 6 days. After a the second day things start to get a little monotonous and we need a break. After the third or fourth day the brain is fried. There needs to be some kind of other activity that takes your mind off of the same hotel walls. Let's put it another way. When you go to work do you stay there for 5 days straight? Probably not. You go home, you go out to dinner. You see friends. You do other things to take your mind away from work because you have to recharge your batteries. It's the same thing at the conferences. Unless you're a robot you have to get out and see the sights and be entertained so that you can go back the next day and absorb the next days meetings.
I just liked it better when it felt like it was gonna be held at a different location every year. I made this same complaint last year and it never got this much attention. - cheers >>> "Joshua J. Kugler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1/29/07 4:36 PM >>> That's funny...when I go to a technical conference, I usually go for the conference, and couldn't care less if there is other stuff to do in the area during the off hours. j -- Joshua Kugler Lead System Admin -- Senior Programmer http://www.eeinternet.com ( http://www.eeinternet.com/ ) PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0xDB26D7CE PO Box 80086 -- Fairbanks, AK 99708 -- Ph: 907-456-5581 Fax: 907-456-3111 >>> "Ed Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1/29/07 1:57 PM >>> I just didn't enjoy the location. When it was in Orlando a few years ago, it was great. There were plenty of things to do and see; different places to eat every night. I had a really good time. Then the following year I went to Santa Clara and there was nothing to do. I went to the movies one night. Had dinner at Sizzler three times. I drove 45 minutes to find a place I could buy a shirt. The rest of the time I stayed in the hotel and watched crappy tv. If you folks want me to be away from my family and friends for five days you've gotta give me a reason to wanna go besides the great technical information. I didn't go to last years, I'm not going to this years and I probably won't go to any future ones held in Santa Clara. When I came home from the last one, my kids asked what I got them from my trip and I had nothing for them. It was just a boring place to go and I don't wanna go back. I'd just like to see it held someplace new every year. Thanks for replying to my comment >>> Lenz Grimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1/25/07 2:21 AM >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ed, thank you for your message! On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Ed Reed has filled out the MySQL Contact Form with a General MySQL Question: > Can someone tell me you folks are going to hold all future User Conferences > in Santa Clara? I would like to go this year but I didn't enjoy myself at the > last one I went to in Santa Clara in '05 and I don't wanna go back. If you > folks plan to hold all future conferences there I'd like to know so I can > resign myself to the fact that it's never gonna change instead of hoping that > it's gonna be somewhere else every year. To be honest, it's not entirely clear yet if we will change the location for upcoming events. But could you explain why you didn't enjoy yourself at the last one? How can we improve? Bye, LenZ - -- Lenz Grimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Community Relations Manager, EMEA MySQL GmbH, http://www.mysql.de/, Hamburg, Germany Visit the MySQL Forge at http://forge.mysql.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQFFuISeSVDhKrJykfIRAsJxAJ9hLkjhA10B68OHpw97x6QHbSqjLACePQym m9lEE93nxdC+K//cQsL658Q= =W/8N -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
