On 7/1/10 11:53 AM, Daniel Golding wrote: > The way forward is to have sharp cut-off from having > quasi-professional meetings and transition into having real events. > Real events have real sponsorship models, not a few bucks for a break > or a beer and gear. Real events are planned a year in advance, not a > few months. Real events don't require hosts to dedicate a dozen staff > members - they can just write a check.
And then... On 7/1/10 3:08 PM, Daniel Golding wrote: > Well, there is one bright line that (I think) everyone can agree with > - a permanent and hard separation of sponsorship and program. To the > point where people who handle the sponsorships must not be on the > program committee and vice-versa. > > Pay-for-play is fine at a certain sort of conference, but never for > NANOG. I re-checked to make sure I didn't screw up the attributions of these, posted to the same thread a few hours apart. For the record, I agree with the 3:08 PM Daniel Golding and disagree with the 11:53 AM Daniel Golding. This is what makes NANOG different from a trade show such as VON or ISPCon. The focus is technical, not vendor-specific sales. It's worth the $600 to me and to my employer because of that, as opposed to free entry to exhibits for a traditional trade show with exorbitantly priced individual technical sessions, extra if you want the slides or a transcript. If NANOG to date hasn't had real events, you could have fooled me. -- Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - [email protected] Impulse Internet Service - http://www.impulse.net/ Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV _______________________________________________ Nanog-futures mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog-futures
