Wishful conferencing...

Looks like OzFox 2007 is shaping up to be one of the best conferences of the year (wish I was going).

This past weekend was going to be my most productive, (upgrading my server, recording a FoxShow and more) but instead I ended up at the hospital and am now relegated inside the home office for the next week.

Still, if every user group or conference did as great a job as Craig does on showcasing their meetings and spreading the word, all of those people who still have yet to go to a conference would be able to feel the warmth spreading.

Now all we have to do is convince him to podcast it or better yet, stream it! (hint! hint!)

I know a lot of people have mixed feelings towards this (after all, if people don't have to attend, they won't , right?) - but the real value of a conference, in my mind, is in the networking. The value of the sessions is in sharing the information - so why not share it with as many people as possible?

OzFox 2007

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