Hey! An Event Apart, the conference/workshop/thing featuring expert web developers, designers, and thinkers, is coming to Boston in March. I’d love to go, but I’m certainly not paying for it myself, and it’s probably not fair to even ask my ever-frugal employer to shell out $795 for something like this. Hmm.
Aside
Wow! Why is it so expensive?
The linguistics conference I’m going to in January is only $50 for three days – and that’s because I’m not a member of the LSA (if I were, it’d only be $40). To be fair, those are the student rates, and non-student non-LSA-members are charged $125, but still!
It’s so expensive because it is a professional design conference, not an academic conference, and big companies want their big designers and developers to go hear from the big experts and learn big things. 🙂
This blog post might help understand why events can be expensive:
http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2005/12/14/event-pricing/
I don’t know the details on the linguistics conference, but if it’s being held at a university which isn’t charging much (if anything) and there’s no food on offer and the speakers don’t get paid, that would help explain the lower registration price.