RE: COMMON in San Antonio (fwd)

[Bob Cozzi <BobCozzi@xxxxxxx>]

There have been a lot of good ideas in the area of CD-ROM and hand-outs.

While I am fully aware of the sharing of knowledge between attendees and 
their co-workings (for which is the nothing wrong, and should be 
encouraged) it would certainly not be a "voting" point for me should it be 
put to a vote. I mean, providing handouts because several attendees like to 
share them with their co-workers does nothing for the cost saving measures. 
I mean think about it. These people do not come to the conference. If their 
company is a member of COMMON, and they want to benefit, why not print a 
copy of the handout off of the CD? I believe that, that is a good enough 
solution.

And the technical vs. non-technical session issue is very valid. However 
there are several sessions, such as Barsa's system values, that in my 
opinion, do not need to be printed. The stuff is somewhat static for a 
period beyond the conference so why not make that one CD-ROM only. (Sorry 
to pick on your session Al.) If it changes, well people can take notes, but 
I suppose printing an addendum would be okay. But reprinted the entire 
9000-page handout isn't something I'd favor.

I suppose one solution would be, for the large rooms, to have additional 
monitors (27-inch TV) set up so people in the back can see the hand out 
too. Even if you're using a hand-out style from the 1950's there are 
technologies that allow those things to be broadcast over a wire.

There is still that one burning issue, however. It is not printing 800 
copies of a 50-page handout for a room that seats 1000 people. Particularly 
when 1200 people show up for that session. I don't care about those kinds 
of sessions. Print the hand-out...  What I'm talking about is the dozens of 
sessions that are in 300 to 900 person rooms and we print 300 to 900 
copies, and 23 people show up. While those 23 people should get, and always 
do get, the same quality session as the 900 person attendance, we do end up 
with a lot more waste. And that waste is costing COMMON at least tens and 
perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars at _each_ conference.





Bob Cozzi
Bob@RPGIV.COM
www.rpgiv.com
AS/400 Books:  http://www.rpgiv.com/as400Books.html


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