Posted by Kenneth Sloan on May 22, 2003 at 22:43:46:
In Reply to: Re: Texas RTEC posted by Brian Frederiksen on May 19, 2003 at 14:29:58:
In my experience with academic conferences, it takes a minimum of THREE YEARS with a stable organization (same event at about the same time, preferably in the same place - but at least advertised in the same channels) for an event to become established.
The conference in GA is jsut approaching this threshold, and I think it will succeed. The regional TECs need time to establish an audience and get on people's schedule. This will take a firm committment to continue organizing the events for several more years. This will be painful, and difficult.
The events *will* be small for a few years.