[46761] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOG costs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lockhart)
Wed Apr 10 02:25:11 2002
To: Paul Revere <mr_paul_revere@yahoo.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Apr 2002 19:48:58 PDT."
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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 07:24:33 +0100
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From: Simon Lockhart <simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk>
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>We used to pay $150 or so to attend NANOG conferences.
> Why are we charged $300 now? Where is our $150,000+
>going?
To be perfectly honest, I'm more than happy with the cost of the NANOG
conference.
I get probably 2 or 3 invitations to "conferences" every week through the
post, and they're all the equivalent of $2000 upwards for a 1 or 2 day
conference. And these conferences are more a marketting hype, so will be
*heavily* sponsored by the companies who present at them.
So, $300 for a 3 day conference, where it's stuff that's actually relevant
and useful to my job, and isn't just a marketting exercise by the vendors
who spam me with plenty of material anyway, is, in my view, good value for
money.
Simon
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