I hear ya Scott.
Makes sense.
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 2:00 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: COMMON - the week's over...
Hi Shannon,
I go to COMMON to teach, not to learn.
Sessions on a topic that I can learn from are relatively rare. Perhaps
one or two each year is about all I can hope for. When they *do* pop
up, I'm usually too busy to catch them at COMMON, so I'll catch them at
one of the other half dozen or so conferences that I participate in.
I think if you look at my participation in these mailing lists, as well
as my open source projects, the stuff on System iNetwork, etc, you'll
get a good idea of my motivation: I really enjoy teaching people stuff,
and I really love this community and want to help wherever I can.
And that's really why I participate in COMMON as well. To help the
community. And that already costs me money out of pocket -- I don't
mind spending money out of my pocket to help the community.
But, as with anything, there's got to be a limit. I can't afford to
spend thousands of dollars AND spend hundreds of hours helping.
I wish I could, and I hope there's a resolution to this, because I
really do want to keep participating and helping COMMON and the community.
FWIW... there's a similar discussion happening here (with Paris &
Gantner's opinions)
http://ibmsystemsmag.blogs.com/idevelop/2009/05/the-future-of-common.html
Shannon ODonnell wrote:
Your company won't pay for your training/air/hotel fees Scott?
That's how most of us afford to go in the first place...our companies pay
for it.
midrange.com
