On 09/09/2015 11:30 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote:
I do think, even if only as a sop to those of us (like myself) who get
fed up how RunRev, for all their ballyhoo about China and so forth,
do seem to give the impression that they don't really seem to think
outside a North Atlantic box, the survey would have looked a bit
more friendly if it had left a chance open for participants to suggest
other cities in other states/countries than those forced as choices
on participants.
To be blunt Richmond, it doesn't take a great deal of thought to
understand *why* there is a restricted choice. Indeed, I think people
before me have already explained adequately why. However, let me
reiterate in perhaps slightly more detail:
The point of a conference is that people attend.
If people are to go to a conference then they need to be able to
afford to do so.
If you hold a conference somewhere where the cost to get there exceeds
someone's ability to pay those costs, they won't go.
If you hold a conference somewhere where the ticket price has to
exceed someone's ability to pay that cost, they won't go.
Therefore, you need to ensure that you hold the conference in a
location where the most number of people who are likely to attend can
attend.
Bearing in mind we have a pretty good map of the locations of the
majority of LiveCode users who we would class as 'likely to attend if
they can', it isn't a difficult thing to work out where the optimal
places to hold it might be.
In regards to why Edinburgh (UK) and not somewhere else in Europe.
Then, again, that is an economic imperative. Whilst getting to the
main aviation hubs in the Western part of Western Europe (Amsterdam,
Paris etc.) is perhaps no more difficult than getting to those in the
UK, if we hold the conference in Europe rather than Edinburgh than we
have to:
1) Only take a restricted set of staff.
2) Pay for transporting said staff to the European location.
3) Pay for feeding, and housing said staff at the European location.
This latter cost means that (comparatively speaking) the ticket cost
of the conference would have to be greater as it has to cover the
costs of running the conference (the staff being there being quite an
important aspect of this).
Now, of course, it costs more to transit staff to the US (although
perhaps not to house!) than Europe; however, we have more users in the
US who are 'likely to attend' so the expected tickets sales if we have
the conference in the US is higher in the UK.
Basically, where a conference is held is entirely a numbers game.
Sure, we could throw in a couple of 'lets make people feel fluffy
questions' into such a survey (which wouldn't really give any useful
data at all) but that would just make the survey longer. The longer
the survey, the less responses you get, thus the less accurate the
results you get. Again, it all comes down to numbers.
Mark.
The survey asked if one were likely to attend; but as the choice of
where one could attend was restricted the results would be
like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Had you offered, say, Munich or somewhere on the Pacific rim
(Shanghai???) you might have got quite a few people to say they might
attend; but by restricting the choices you will never know.
Richmond.
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