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by Purdy (2383)

[This is probably worthy of a journal post on its own.]

I've been really shocked to see how times have changed in the speaking arena. Perhaps it's related to the .com bust, but conferences have stopped paying as much to speakers as they once have.

Now, it's one thing when you're an open source community that's putting together the conference (i.e. YAPC), but when it's a commercial entity (i.e. SIGS, O'Reilly, etc.) who will be charging a whole lot for the conference pass and make more money off of sponsors
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  by chromatic (983) on 2005.05.23 17:42 (#40671) Homepage Journal
  
  Nat may be along shortly to give more details, but in my experience, it's not maximizing profits, it's trying to make a profit. Sure, no speakers no conference, but no profit from a conference this year no conference next year.
  
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