Re: [Tccc] Cost of attendance from developing countries / in general

Regional conferences may not be such a bad idea, as long as their review process is solid and the papers are captured in one of the digital libraries. Also, maybe this will encourage submissions of high-quality work to journals. In many cases, it's hard to consider a 5-day trip to present a paper to 10 people for 20 minutes a good return on investment, particularly if eight of those people are reading their email or updating Facebook.

Henning

On Dec 7, 2009, at 12:05 AM, obazan@ee.ryerson.ca wrote:

> I believe the discussion on this particular topic "Cost of attendance from
> developing countries / in general" has been narrowed down to just
> registration fees which is IMO not the main factor for the no-shows.
>
> Earlier, Martin Drozda did the simple math and found that attending
> Globecom 2009 costs 2500 Euro (3750 USD). My point is reducing the
> registration fees by $100-200 will not make any difference for people
> coming from developing countries or those with limited budget.
>
> Most people with limited/no funds used to pay the registration fees with
> no real intention to attend the conferences. Unfortunately, they had no
> choice. With the new no-show policy, some started to tweak it by
> presentations by non-authors. If non-authors presentations are no longer
> allowed, researchers from developing countries may be forced to publish in
> regional conferences.
>
> -Osama.
>
>
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> Electrical and Computer Engineering
> Ryerson University
> Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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