[TriLUG] Lulu Heat (Really a question of value)

[John Turner]

I went to the 1st JavaOne and it cost me $1995.00, that is about 
$1910.00 more than the Lulu Tech Circus.

I think if you are going to compare this show to something you have to 
use a show that costs the same to attend.

SIGGRAPH 2002 was between $700-900. So that is 10X what this event 
costs. So if you want to say that SIGGRAPH was 10X better than I am 
willing to listen, but you can just make blind comparisons.  If I said 
that my $50K BMW was better than your $10K Kia that would really be 
fair would it?


On Sunday, September 29, 2002, at 11:44 AM, Mike Mueller wrote:

> On Sunday 29 September 2002 10:14, Michael Winslow Czeiszperger wrote:
>
>> You only have to compare it with the circus put on at JavaOne
>> conference for comparison. The JavaOne circus had a live band, circus
>> performers, a climbing wall, dozens of cool games to play, great food,
>> etc. And that was in addition to the great talks, expansive vendor
>> exhibits, Java training courses, concerts, parties, etc.
>
> By any chance was the JavaOne circus back in the days that ".com" 
> marketers
> would arrange planning meetings in Cancun, that Nortel stock was in 
> the $80
> range (now $0.45), and technology was a promising career? :-/  The Sun
> marketing group probably footed the bill for that show.
>
> I like the idea of a show put on by "cash-strapped user's group[s]". A
> combined linux/BSD installfest, wireless demo, video/sound demo, robo 
> wars,
> business-on-Linux, meat+/- cookout, live music event that raises funds 
> for a
> charity like computers for schools or West-Nile-free blood.
> -- 
> mueller, mike
>
> The larger purpose of the economic order, including Wall Street, is to
> support the material conditions for human existence, not to undermine 
> and
> destabilize them.
>
> -Editorial, The Nation, August 19, 2002
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