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The way most conferences handle invited speakers is that they invite the
speakers, and offer some form of compensation. Maybe I'm wrong, but
that was how I interpreted John's posting in this newsgroup. It seems
that others interpreted it as saying that certain submitters would
receive compensation.
There is a big difference.
And my information is that the latter is correct. Only some speakers
will receive compensation.
Now, that may be normal at some conferences, but I suspect that those
conferences would mostly be the ones where someone else would be paying
for the speakers and attendees anyway (eg academic conferences).
There is no way I will get enough benefit from presenting a few sessions
to cover the upfront costs (?500 - ?000), and miss a week+ of work,
and put in all the hours necessary to prepare.
Now, I don't consider myself in the top league of speakers, by any
means. So if I don't go, it probably won't make a difference, and I
don't expect Borland to put me on the "invited" list. But it is
certainly generating bad feeling out here, and Borland should be
addressing that issue. Speakers are part of their marketing arm, in effect.
The last post by a Borlander here was Allen on 23/2/2005, and it wasn't
about the conference. The last post on this topic was JK on 19/3/05.
This habit of letting these things fester is not good.
Cheers,
Jim Cooper
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