ApacheCon 2004 Registration Open

Orbital Sander writes "Registration is now open for ApacheCon 2004, held on November 15-17 in Las Vegas. The conference features over 65 sessions about topics as diverse as the Apache httpd web server (which drives over 67% of all web sites on the Internet including Slashdot) to the foundation's Web Services projects. The weekend preceding the conference has a program of tutorials, three hour hands-on sessions presented by the finest minds in the Apache community. Wanna rub shoulders with the developers and power users of the Apache software? Registering before October 31 gets you $100 off."

$800!

[will]

Eight hundred dollars? Plus accommodation, plus flights, and plus tutorials? I would love to spend the afternoon talking to Perrin Harkins about profiling and preforking, and I'm sure it would help me enormously, but really, who's got $2grand to drop on that except corporate drones with training budgets to burn? Not fun. Back to the mailing lists with me.

Re:$800!

[isometrick]

Seriously. And not a student discount in sight, you insensitive clods! :(

It completely rules out a road trip, because the most money you are supposed to spend on a road trip is for gas and half-frozen/rancid hot dogs from the 7-11s (or equivalent) on the way.

It's not as bad as TechEd, but it's still a bummer. That price tag is a showstopper for a lot of people that Apache and open source in general should be very worried about attracting.

Especially with my college cramming MSDNAA stuff in our faces all t

Re:$800!

[agent dero]

If you can't afford the $800, maybe this isn't directed at you.
Apache Foundation software is used a good deal in the "enterprise", these talks look like they will be pretty intense, and for those only serious enough on the subject to drop the cash (or their employers) on the Con.

It's moreso a tech-Con than a social-rub-shoulders-Con.

Re:$800!

[imemyself]

Just because you don't have $800 + $ for other stuff doesn't mean that you aren't serious about Apache, and ready for these "intense talks". Seriousness shouldn't be judged by the amount of money that you're willing to blow(for lack of a better term, I'm sure ApacheCon'll be great).