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At our STC chapter meetings, we try to have a mix of technical talks and
less technical talks. One of the best I can remember for me was a talk about
networking - routers, PHP, protocols, and other stuff. I learned a TON.
I can also say that some conferences do not charge speakers to go. I have
spoken at more than a few regions STC conferences, and I resent paying to
speak. I do it, but only locally or if I can roll the conference into other
business. I have never been able to justify the National conference to
myself or the CPA. The return on my investment is nil - no clients, no work,
nothing except the knowledge that I had fun doing a talk. I can stay home
and talk to my dogs.
I wish that the STC conferences did not charge speakers. Somehow, $25 or
whatever off the normal attendance is not a deal.
But I may be over tired and a little cranky right now.
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I don't think the STC conference is the right venue for super-technical
presentations, simply because of the niche appeal of such topics.
For example, I doubt that a networking seminar that is elementary enough
to help ME would be of much interest to somebody like Andrew. *I'd* still
like to attend one, but I don't know if that's the kind of thing Andrew
would like to see. He tends to seess the tech writing field in direction
relation to HIS job, which is not necessarily similar to everybody else's
job.
What's a good solution? Introductory seminars about commonly used
technologies would be helpful to me. Would that make you happy, Andrew?
You'd probably be a great presenter at one of those, if they didn't make
you pay admission. (To that end, I just wrote a letter of complaint to the
STC - it will be interesting to see their response, if any.) But I still
don't know if you'd want to be in the audience...
How technical, and how deep - that is the question. Actually that's two
questions. Funny that Shakespeare never caught that in Hamlet. Crummy
editing, I guess.
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