[PLUG] Is PLUG an O'Reilly User Group?

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Thu May 22 18:47:02 UTC 2003


On Thu, 22 May 2003, Mark Martin wrote:

> Is PLUG signed up as an O'Reilly User Group, i.e. as members of PLUG, are we 
> eligible for a user group discount at the Open Source Convention?  Those of 
> us who are good-for-nothing bums, i.e. jobless, find even the $900 early-bird 
> price eye-poppingly hard to stomach.  The User Group Program web site 
> (http://ug.oreilly.com/) suggests that PLUG should be eligible, although I'm 
> not sure what the strings might be.

  PDXLUG is an "official" ORUG and that group is as officially constructed
as is PLUG. Robby was looking for volunteers to both man a booth offered by
ORA and to coordinate that booth. Don't know where he is on this.

  I looked carefully at the benefit:cost ratio and determined that for me it
was so much less that 1.0 that I would need a double to hold the appropriate
number of places. The price is, IMO of course, outrageous.

  Several years ago I taught a full-day short course in Ecological Risk
Assessment at an intenational mining convention. The participants paid less
than $200 for the course; I think it was $125 or $150.

  Value, of course, is set by the consumer. If enough folks are willing to
shell out (bash, naturally) $1,500 for the full convention's "early bird"
price, then ORA is right to charge that much. If ony a half-dozen folks show
up, then next year's price is guaranteed to be lower.

Rich

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