Well said Mark! Graham
> On 9 Sep 2015, at 10:30, Mark Waddingham <m...@livecode.com> wrote: > >> I do think, even if only as a sop to those of us (like myself) who get >> fed up how RunRev, for all their ballyhoo about China and so forth, >> do seem to give the impression that they don't really seem to think >> outside a North Atlantic box, the survey would have looked a bit >> more friendly if it had left a chance open for participants to suggest >> other cities in other states/countries than those forced as choices >> on participants. > > To be blunt Richmond, it doesn't take a great deal of thought to understand > *why* there is a restricted choice. Indeed, I think people before me have > already explained adequately why. However, let me reiterate in perhaps > slightly more detail: > > The point of a conference is that people attend. > > If people are to go to a conference then they need to be able to afford to do > so. > > If you hold a conference somewhere where the cost to get there exceeds > someone's ability to pay those costs, they won't go. > > If you hold a conference somewhere where the ticket price has to exceed > someone's ability to pay that cost, they won't go. > > Therefore, you need to ensure that you hold the conference in a location > where the most number of people who are likely to attend can attend. > > Bearing in mind we have a pretty good map of the locations of the majority of > LiveCode users who we would class as 'likely to attend if they can', it isn't > a difficult thing to work out where the optimal places to hold it might be. > > In regards to why Edinburgh (UK) and not somewhere else in Europe. Then, > again, that is an economic imperative. Whilst getting to the main aviation > hubs in the Western part of Western Europe (Amsterdam, Paris etc.) is perhaps > no more difficult than getting to those in the UK, if we hold the conference > in Europe rather than Edinburgh than we have to: > 1) Only take a restricted set of staff. > 2) Pay for transporting said staff to the European location. > 3) Pay for feeding, and housing said staff at the European location. > > This latter cost means that (comparatively speaking) the ticket cost of the > conference would have to be greater as it has to cover the costs of running > the conference (the staff being there being quite an important aspect of > this). > > Now, of course, it costs more to transit staff to the US (although perhaps > not to house!) than Europe; however, we have more users in the US who are > 'likely to attend' so the expected tickets sales if we have the conference in > the US is higher in the UK. > > Basically, where a conference is held is entirely a numbers game. > > Sure, we could throw in a couple of 'lets make people feel fluffy questions' > into such a survey (which wouldn't really give any useful data at all) but > that would just make the survey longer. The longer the survey, the less > responses you get, thus the less accurate the results you get. Again, it all > comes down to numbers. > > Mark. > > -- > Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ > LiveCode: Everyone can create apps > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
