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Today i learned why anyone cares what lambdaconf does: The ticket prices sit at an absolutely ridiculous minimum of $500. I can't imagine what could possibly ju
by Mithaldu 11y ago
Today i learned why anyone cares what lambdaconf does: The ticket prices sit at an absolutely ridiculous minimum of $500. I can't imagine what could possibly justify that expense.
For context: I've attended many conferences, in the sizes of 100 to 4000: Purely technical; technical with lots of music and beer; focused on arts, crafts and acting. Never have i seen a regular price over $150.
Now here comes LambdaConf, a con about a niche language, with a sponsor that describes it as "a lot of those speakers are new to speaking at tech conferences" and "reasonably priced".
I can't help but feel something is amiss here, either in their self-portray, or my understanding.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoFor comparison, Pycon is $300 for individuals, $600 corporate (https://us.pycon.org/2016/registration/ https://us.pycon.org/2016/registration/ ), early bird registration for CppCon is $845 ( https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cppcon-2016-registration-18889615348 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cppcon-2016-registration-188896... ), and early bird for Scala Days is $950 ( http://event.scaladays.org/scaladays-nyc-2016#04-Registration http://event.scaladays.org/scaladays-nyc-2016#04-Registratio... ) (I just picked three arbitrary languages (four, actually, but I couldn't immediately find pricing for a java conference) )
- jaegerpicker 11y agoI've attended quite a few national conferences and all of them were higher priced.
- busterarm 11y agoShit, I want to go to SHARE and that conference is ~$2000. And there's like 2 of them a year. Also Blackhat.
- johnny22 11y agotry getting a ticket to oscon. way above my price range
- jghn 11y agoMany software conferences are several hundred dollars or more