SW World opinions

I had a conversation with some of the SWx world organizers today,and
this subject came up. They care, but they need help. When personal
agenda selection starts up in a couple of weeks, they are going to try
to make it clear that people ought to sign up so the organizers can get
a head count on sessions before the show. Excepting hands-on sessions,
signing up in advance doesn't guarantee you a seat - but it will help
the organizers set up an appropriate number of seats in the room.
So try to sign up (and in case other people don't, show up early for
sessions so its some other poor bastard in the hall)

 

Thanks Ed. I'll bet organizing the Midwest Regional wasn't much easier.

 

Maybe they need to start thinking about SWW sessions like Continuing
Education and set up tracks, have sign up and even offer CEU credits.
That kind of organization might help sway some bosses who think people
are going just to see how high they can stack shots. I would certainly
like to know in advance what I can get into and what I can't .

 

As I asked before, is this not what DVDs were invented for to make our
lives easier?

Especially when they contain just a quarter's worth of Polycarbonate at
most, and duping is cheap.

Any SolidWorks user who was willing to devote the days and money to go
to SWks World, is pretty dedicated and the cost of an additional few
DVDs would be well worth buying by most of us.

Bo

 

Thanks, Ed! Without you, this might have been just another bitching session.
I already owe you any number of your favorite beverages for your help here
and the great tutorials you make available on you the Dimonte Group website.
Maybe this year I'll be able to pay down a little on that debt!

Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems
"take the garbage out, dear"

 

I imagine it was hard. However, I don't know because I didn't do s***
to help set it up - I just show up to that one. I think either Gene
Dimonte or Mark Peters deserve the credit for the schedule at the
Midwest Regional conference.

 

I like the ideas of tracks and mentioned that in my conversation with
SWx.
I personally do not like getting locked into a schedule in advance -
when chatting to other users I learn about good presenters or good
sessions (which comes in handy if they are repeated, which SWx will
likely try to do on the last day with popular ones). I know it wreaks
havoc on room populations and makes me part of the problem and not part
of the solution, but I would like to have some flexibility on the date
of the show.
That said, I think there is merit to combining the two - if you
registered you get a seat (barring, of course, the potential
logisitical nightmare with that - this is a theoretical discussion). If
I am there but did not register, I could get bumped by someone who did.

 

I like tracks, too, so long as they are for helping me to organize myself,
not for restricting me to only a certain set of sessions.

I really like this idea. There are certain sessions that I desperately want
to get into. I would love to have a more or less guaranteed seat if I sign
up early.


Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems
"take the garbage out, dear"

 

I checked yesterday and there were a few changes in the schedule, but I've
still got most of the same problems I had originally. Does anyone know if
there are more changes planned? Does anyone have a final schedule date?


Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems
"take the garbage out, dear"