[nzlug] Red Hat Open Source Symposium 2006

[Simon Bridge]

On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 10:46 +1200, Craig Box wrote:
> [Red Hat Open Source Symposium]
> >> 
> >> (The first 50 places are free - I'm not sure why they expect people
> >> to pay, but they obviously haven't hit 50 attendees yet!)
> > 
> > Thanks for the link, I wasn't aware of this happening in Auckland.
> > 
> > (why should you expect it to be free?)
> 
> Because it's a commercial vendor trying to sell you their stuff.  
> 
This is an interesting point, the "Computer Expo"'s at Ellerslie
involved seminars etc and free entry. (Though I don't think the seminars
were free, vendor displays et al were.) They (IDG) were giving away
tickets in pamflet mail-drops as well as advertising like mad in their
publications (well, the publications they distribute). All they wanted
was your demographic stuff ...

It is also interesting that IDG are involved at all ... are they
involved with a linux publication these days?