kate.fletcher 42758 (7/5/2013)
Fascinating post!To me, the sort of conference you describe is actually little more than a re-gurgitated technical manual! The kind that lists all the possible commands/ methods etc that are supported in a language, but there's no way to ask a human question, like "how do I calculate a percentage or shade it pale grey?"
You have to know a lot before you can begin to participate .... and if you know that much - why go at all?
I usually go to sessions for one of two reasons:
* the subject is about a topic I haven't had time to delve into myself
* the speaker knows more about the subject than I do, so I will definately learn something
(Maybe this one as well:
* the other sessions in the time slot were more boring)
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