Re: New TECHWR-L Poll Question - Conference Attendance

[Peter Neilson <neilson -at- alltel -dot- net>]

I am usually a contractor, and have seen no possibility
of getting to any conferences at all.  The last time I
attended anything like this was when I worked for a
university and was paid to attend meetings of the Unix
Users' Group.  To give a hint of the timeframe, I'll
mention that Joe Ossanna, developer of troff, was there.
( http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2001-06/msg00077.html )

There has been no money, no time, and no thought or action
or even hints at anyone attending a conference for
anything.  I did go to a couple of DSP programming classes a
few years ago, travel paid by my employer.  But I helped
by scrimping on hotel bills--I stayed at my brother's
house, even borrowed his car.  I think he and his wife would
have preferred that I'd stayed in a hotel.

Lisa M. Bronson wrote: