VCF Midwest update?

[John Foust]

At 07:44 PM 8/2/2005, Julian Wolfe wrote:
>That's a fair and honest explanation and I appreciate that.  However, there
>still is an issue of charging the people creating the draw for the event and
>giving them absolutely nothing - i.e. by exhibiting, we have money to lose
>and nothing to gain.  That seems screwy to me.  To be quite honest, I think
>the entire financial load should have been put on the vendors' shoulders.
>THEY are the ones gaining something from this, not the exhibitors.

It's up to exhibitors to decide if they like those rules.  If they
don't feel they're getting value from it for the price, they won't 
come.  It's not all about getting a free t-shirt, is it?  It's about
the pride.  The bragging rights.  The delightful show-off-i-ness of
something geeky.  Rubbing elbows with friends.  What's the big deal?
$50?  That's not even dinner for two at many places.  $10?  That's 
not even a cheeseburger at many places.  What's your time worth?
More significantly, what's someone else's time worth to work on
all the details of the show?

Do you have any idea how much convention space costs at a bigger show?
You'll pay twice that for the right to put a potted plant in your booth.

- John