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What Do You Look For In a Conference?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the real-technical-info-not-buzzword-bingo dept.

Michael Lato writes "I've been a speaker at several Information Technology conferences and I know that I use conferences as both an opportunity to gain new skills and to network with my peers. In hopes of assisting others, I've started my own conference in order to boost the soft skills of computer professionals. However, we may need to cancel due to a lack of attendees. What are people looking for in a conference in the midst of this recession? Have we missed the mark in thinking topics like project management and remote team leadership will be well-received?"

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  1. Oh my God! by NoYob · · Score: 5, Funny
    What I look for in a Conference:
    1. Free Booze
    2. Scantily clad hot booth chicks
    3. Porn stars
    4. Free shit
    5. Free food
    6. Drunk career women looking for a little "fun"
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  2. Re:Location Location Location... by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Funny

    d: Is in a hotel with a nice bar that has readily available escorts trolling for well-off professionals

    We know what you want, but what about the professionals?

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  3. In other words by ArchieBunker · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're a self absorbed douchebag who got a taste of reality when nobody wanted to attend your coma inducing conference.

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    Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
  4. Free hookers like the climate conference by RichMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    This sort of thing only seems to happen at the political conferences, not the technical ones.

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    Copenhagen's city council in conjunction with Lord Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards out to 160 Copenhagen hotels urging COP15 guests and delegates to 'Be sustainable - don't buy sex'.

    "Dear hotel owner, we would like to urge you not to arrange contacts between hotel guests and prostitutes," the approach to hotels says.

    Now, Copenhagen prostitutes are up in arms, saying that the council has no business meddling in their affairs. They have now offered free sex to anyone who can produce one of the offending postcards and their COP15 identity card, according to the Web site avisen.dk.
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    http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,665182,00.html

    1. Re:Free hookers like the climate conference by geminidomino · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, the surprise is the prostitutes. ;)