Re: DEVNEXUS and downtown

AJUG is free to join, participate in and is volunteer run.

The fact that we can scale the conference and keep the price point so low
means that more people in the Atlanta dev community can benefit from a
national conference with globally recognized speakers and OEMs as sponsors
in their back yard. All other conferences like this are not in Atlanta, and
by the time you travel, stay and pay for them it will cost over $2000, for
one person

No matter what we do about location, venue, whatever. It is not going to be
convenient for everyone.

I understand that you are passionate so please join us, add your voice and
volunteer




Cheers
Vincent

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Quite humbly, that begs the question, was there a poll on asking the ajug
> members that we want to grow that big ?
>
> My point is, there was not an attempt to (or was there and I missed out)
> collect a poll from the  ajug members to say should we keep increasing the
> size of participation at the devnexus or cap it at say 1000 people or so ?
>
> I am not saying we should cap it, I not saying we should grow too much
> either but the ajug community from which this devnexus derives its standing
> was not actively engaged.
>
> Hopefully a retrospective for next year's devnexus is in the offing to
> have a fair and transparent opinion collection and decision making.
>
> You may say, "we are not forcing you to attend", yes while that is true, I
> am a member of the ajug group and I feel I have a sense of responsibility
> to raise these points.
>
> -Narahari
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Vincent Mayers <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> we outgrew the Galleria sorry.
>>
>> We have 1800 people attending Devnexus this year, the highest attendance
>> it has ever been, so it seems like it's not as big a turn off as you would
>> imagine :) and we are paying for parking... sorry its not for you
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>> Vincent
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Friends:
>>>
>>> I am not sure if this has been hashed multiple times but in our internal
>>> conversation at the company and with friends, the location of DEVNEXUS
>>> being in downtown is BIG TURN OFF.
>>>
>>> I feel that one of the great interest on DEVNEXUS was the cobb galleria.
>>>
>>> What was the factor that made this to be in downtown ?
>>>
>>> Could we not find CobbGalleria to be sufficient  enough ?
>>>
>>> Was there polling done to find the interest of local people and remote
>>> people ?
>>>
>>> Was there an email discussing the reasons on all these ?
>>>
>>> -N
>>>
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