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(hint: you're supposed to expense it through your employer)
As a student, and a startup employee, I must say that not everyone has the ability to expense their employer.
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As a student, and a startup employee, I must say that not everyone has the ability to expense their employer.
Most conferences have different pricing tiers to deal with this stuff. Seeing as how this is Github's first conference, if enough people bug them they might do something about this.
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(hint: you're supposed to expense it through your employer)
He must be self employed.
I wish conferences weren't so damned expensive.
If you think $500 is expensive than I don't think you have any idea how much it costs to rent a 300-person conference room at even a mediocre hotel (let alone catering on top of that). And this isn't a mediocre hotel, it's the Hyatt Regency.
That doesn't even touch on the cost of organizing and running the conference, travel and hotel for speakers, etc, etc, etc.
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He must be self employed.
I'm not self employed, I work for gdgt. I just wish I didn't have to bug my employer to fund me attending this kind of stuff and would much rather pay for it out of my own pocket because (personally) I tend to care more about something if I'm paying for it out of my own pocket.
I wish conferences weren't so damned expensive.
I wish conferences weren't so damned expensive.
I've never really understood it either. RailsConf is $700. I don't know what the turn-out is but I would guess ~1,000 people maybe? That is $700,000. Maybe I am just unaware how much a conference costs to put on, but that seems like a ton of money. Plus most conferences have sponsors too.
(also, if any HN-ers are around and want to get lunch or something, lemme know. I might go a day early and just putz around SF.)
I wish conferences weren't so damned expensive.
$65 to have power available in your area. $100 for a table. $200-500 for area rugs. $80 dollars an hour for labor to help setup or tear down. A 22" monitor is $200 - you could buy it and throw it away for that price.
I'm not saying it's highway robbery, but it's shocking, and probably indicates running a conference that pops up and then tears down efficiently is simply more expensive than you would initially guess.
I wish conferences weren't so damned expensive.
I recently got a "exhibitor kit" packet that lists the costs of renting certain items for your conference display. You know, tables, monitors, booth structures, rugs, plants, extension cords. Stuff marketing teams don't want to deal with packing in and out. $65 to have power available in your area. $100 for a table. $200-500 for area rugs. $80 dollars an hour for labor to help setup or tear down. A 22" monitor is $20…
The rates are outrageous partly because all the work (from moving crates to Internet) is done by union workers. The convention centers have exclusive contracts with companies like GES, also driving up costs.