--On Thursday, July 11, 2013 10:34 -0400 Phillip Hallam-Baker
<hallam(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
...
Using paid conferences as a profit center is a risky long term
prospect at best. Refusing to adapt the format of the
conferences to protect the profit center worse.
Or adapting the format to attract more paying attendees, such a
what we have sometimes called "tourists", with no real
expectation that they will do work, because it increases the
income.
Still better than building a funding structure based on sale of
publications, however :-(
john