Board:   [DeveloperNet] C#
Subject: Re: New features in C# 4.
From:    Nightfox
Date:    Wed May 25, 2011 08:53

  Re: Re: New features in C# 4.0
  By: art to Nightfox on Wed May 25 2011 11:15:04

 > I've never been to these CodeCons, but they sound interesting--are they
 > streaming talks, providing them for downloading after, etc? Some of the talk
 > look quite interesting. Others are... how shall we say... sounding quite
 > commercial ;)

This Code Camp organization says they want presentations that have good content
and are not commercial mumbo-jumbo.  And that seems to be true - Last year, the
presentations I saw had some good information.

 > comes to mind. Again, they're not perfect, but who is... Red Hat? (eyes roll

I guess nobody isperfect.  I think RedHat has certainly done a lot in the
Linux arena.  But these days, I feel like RedHat is more interested inmoney
than they used to be - The RedHat distribution used to be free, but now you
need a commercial license for it.

 > And, let's face it... conventions are all about making money for the organis
 > If they had more interested sponsors (either big corps or open source
 > community), they would have increased the floor plan and made the room. You
 > might also say that it's Code Camp who set the pricing and therefore decided
 > who could afford to be a sponsor, speaker, exhibitor, etc. They could have m
 >it free (or nearly so) for non-profit orgs. Maybe they did, and if so I'll
 > retract that! :)

This Code Camp is actually a free event and a non-profit organization.  The
funding comes from donations (and anyone can donate via PayPal), and they have
their "sponsors" too.  I really like that it's free to attend. :)  Also, all of
the presenters are people who already have jobs (working in the industry or as
college/university instructors), so money isn't their main motivating factor.
It's done on a Saturday, too, a day that many people have off from work.

Nightfox

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