Re: past COMMON session presentations

I believe the current policy has always been in effect for the handouts on line, and for the one or two years we produced CDs. You had to have registered for the conference to have access to the handouts the speakers authorized to be distributed.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 7/28/2011 1:13 PM, Jerry C. Adams wrote:

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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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
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> Cell 708-670-6978
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