Re:What I've learned sending proposals to conferences
by asjw on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @07:41AM
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> and secondarily a way for attendees to launder company training budgets into paid time off.
That's the only reason I still go, making sure that the hotel has a rooftop pool at least!
it also happened at a conference that some speaker showed some of my experiments as an inspiration for the topic they were talking about ,without crediting me, even though it wasn't hard to find me
Quality is so low nowadays that the guy was speaking there on the stage, showing my code, while I was in the audience knowing that it wasn't talk material, or I would be the one presenting it at a conference!
Re:What I've learned sending proposals to conferences
by skinkestek on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @08:24AM
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> and secondarily a way for attendees to launder company training budgets into paid time off.
Speak for yourself.
My job has gotten good value from the conferences I go to but if the rest of you live like that that would go a good way towards explaining why my very reasonable requests always has to be defended :-/
As you observe, the actual educational value is substantially less than putting the same amount of time into reading.
This is why it really grinds my gears when I see conference speakers whining on Twitter about being mistreated ("they refused to pay for business class flights!"), because speakers are already being paid to advance their own career!