Nate - I hear you. I am not the producer of the conference so I do not have the visibility in the financials as I would if it were my own event. But having organized conferences myself, I doubt that anyone can make money with a first event like this. It is really expensive to produce an event like this.

I like the idea of an unconference…and will check into that.

Holy crap that conference is expensive.

Congrats for getting to speak there. I hope you make some bank. But as for community at the conference itself, you’ll be limited to a very small subset of the actual population (as if that was the point).

But, even if that is the point, it’s sad that some of us who don’t make money off of community involvement (even though we might be good at facilitating it) can’t attend because of the assumption that if you’re involved in building communities, you have money to spend. That’s a false assumption.

I would love to see an unconference about this exact subject, with a much lower price tag. I have a feeling this particular conference will just be a “good ‘ol boy” or A-list conference, where people all say the same things inside the bubble. Unfortunate, to say the least.