> productivity? No. When it comes to being productive, I get far more done sitting at my desk at home. It depends. For creating production-quality code certain

> productivity? No. When it comes to being productive, I get far more done sitting at my desk at home. It depends. For creating production-quality code certainly true. But for design discussions, feature priotisation etc. an in person meeting often is better. Also such events /can/ lead to interesting results from hacking sessions where people collaboratively spin out ideas and code stuff. That code typically needs cleanup, but can spark ideas. Way home from a conference for me often was the time where I had creative new ideas :)