Re: Well, I Sure Won't Be in Chicago

[John Cornellier <tw -at- cornellier -dot- com>]

> Not a SINGLE workshop dealt with
> content related issues.

Delegates get what they want and deserve.

Presumably topics are based on:
- surveys from previous confs.
- availability of speakers.

A lot of tech writers are probably in fields too specialized to be of 
general interest. For my part, I'm writing software user doc for 
geophysists using seismic data to form a model of the subsea geological 
structure, with a view to optimizing real time reservoir monitoring. Even 
if we took the technologies in isolation (e.g. seismology, statistics, 
geophysics, petrophysics, well logs ...) they're too obscure.

Recently, the main topics on this list have been workplace morality and 
some psychology mumbo jumbo which, as far as the majority of posts were 
concerned, could have been within the context of just about any profession.

Anybody who wants to talk about technical issues goes to places on the web 
which are specifically dedicated to those issues. Same with conferences, I 
guess.

John Cornellier


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