RE: past COMMON session presentations

'tru dat' (sorry - teenager at home) intellectual content of the presentation is owned by who created it. 100% agree. If COMMON did collect some additional money from non-attendees that might be directed to the presenters who make their work available to the community. Might even be an incentive to take the time to be a presenter

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Oberholtzer
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 1:35 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: past COMMON session presentations

Folks,

Keep in mind two things:
1) The speaker owns the content and has the full right to determine if and when it is available to anyone. They can load the handout up to the site, or choose not to. They can make it available after the conference or choose not to. They own it and can make those decisions, COMMON does not.
2) If everyone could download all the handouts for the conference as the result of paying yearly dues, why would you ever choose to go to the event? Sure you want to hear the speaker, get the interaction with your peers, and go to the Expo, but if you could get all the content for next to nothing ......?

Let's get real about how organizations like COMMON actually function.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 7/28/2011 12:15 PM, Paul Nelson wrote:

I've always disagreed with this rule. If I pay my dues, I should be
able to retrieve a handout.

Then again, there were lots of things which seemed silly to me. I
guess that's why I no longer attend the conferences. I only pay the
dues to reserve my ability to vote.

Paul Nelson
Office 512-392-2577
Cell 708-670-6978
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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From:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 12:06 PM To:midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: past COMMON session presentations

Right, only conference attendees can get the handouts for the conference.

On 7/27/2011 8:24 PM, Mike Cunningham wrote:

Thanks Scott. Tried this but could not access it. I was not able
to go to this conference the logon says only people who registered
for the conference can access the presentations. My COMMON member
credentials did not work. I can get to the list of presentations
but can't get to any PDFs.

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