RE: past COMMON session presentations

["Jerry C. Adams" <midrange@xxxxxxxx>]

Jim,

I could be misremembering, but some years ago I thought the rule was that
only attendees could download handouts from the latest conference, but that
any member (attendee or not) could download from older conferences.

At the time I was able to attend all conferences so never had a need to
access old conferences as a non-attendee and, I obviously couldn't have
tested this under those conditions.

Jerry C. Adams
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Oberholtzer
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 12:35 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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.