RE: OT: Twelve good reasons NOT to attend the NoCOUG conference tomorrow
From: Iggy Fernandez <iggy_fernandez_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 12:55:39 -0700
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> First maybe your content is continually so good and so high quality that people experience brain freeze at your events and after repeated exposure are trying to keep the remaining neurons protected?
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 12:55:39 -0700
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> First maybe your content is continually so good and so high quality that people experience brain freeze at your events and after repeated exposure are trying to keep the remaining neurons protected?
I just think they're just not convinced about the value of conferences. Why go to a conference when everything is available on Google or YouTube (I disagree that you can get the same quality on Google as listening to a passionate speaker). They also don't see the value of networking and making friends in the Oracle community.
We're finding that people are hungry for information on NoSQL so we're trying to give it to them. Yesterday, one of our members did a two hour deep technical dive on Hadoop that was standing-room only.
We also got OTN to do the hands-on APEX workshop and we got 45 attendees which amazed us. -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Thu May 23 2013 - 21:55:39 CEST