You know whats completely irritating? Most of these conferences (and I have/will buy tickets this year for 3 different conferences) do not have a category of tickets that are priced specifically for Start-ups/New Companies. It would be helpful, and benificial for the conference organizers long term to facilitate the presence of small companies/start-ups, and probably increase thier revenue through volume sales.

Its hard enough sqeezing blood out of turnips, but getting hit with high priced conference tickets, for something that may not have a huge return, just plain sucks.

I will say one thing for the GDC though, their tiered ticket structure is really something conference organizers in and out of the gaming industry could learn from.

Matt, if anything, Linden Lab isn’t represented at a very high level at all, and isn’t listed as a sponsor.

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3. VW 2007 Sponsors

We’d like to thank our sponsors without which this should would not be possible.

Lead Sponsor: Electric Sheep Company – http://www.electricsheepcompany.com/

Gold Sponsor: Second Life – http://secondlife.com/
Silver Sponsor: There.com – http://www.there.com/
Wire Service Sponsor: BusinessWire – http://www.businesswire.com/
Demo Table: Forterra Systems, Inc. – http://www.forterrainc.com/

It looks more like a vehicle for There and ESC branding and positioning than anything else.

I guess what my question would be, even having a conference like this in my own city, what the value-add would be for spending $595 to hear the same people I can read on blogs any day of the week.

I am heartened to see Timo from Habbo, and Matt Boswick speaking. I’m not so heartened to see that the greatest number of speakers come from Linden and their cronies (Electric Sheep, etc), who are all too happy to pump up the value of marketing in Second Life beyond all reason so that they can make a buck.

–matt

today is the last day of pre-registration for ETech I made the final decision not to attend. The combination of being too busy and really liking the feel of the $2k it would cost to go as it sits in my pocket was enough to forgo the possibility that Raph will do something interesting

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