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This looks like an interesting event, but at almost fifteen hundred dollars to attend, it's way out of my price range.
And this is simply false:
Flight School is new for us - and new for space and aviation, which doesn't yet have a single gathering where pioneers and entrepreneurs can talk strategy, tactics...and experience, whether in space and aviation or in the Internet computing industry.
Actually, there has been an annual event (and arguably two, if you count the Space Frontier Foundation meeting) that does exactly that for years, and it only costs a hundred dollars to attend.
In fact, it's just a couple months from now, and I'll be planning to attend. I'd encourage anyone else interested in alt-space to do so as well. If I had unlimited time and funds, I'd love to attend Esther Dyson's event, but I suspect that Space Access will continue to be the best such conference, and certainly the best value, for some time to come.
Posted by Rand Simberg at February 28, 2005 08:00 AM
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Having been to a few of Esther's 'events' in other fora I can say that it brings nothing new to the subject that the experts in that area haven't already talked about among each other. The only thing Esther would bring is a gaggle of observers who wouldn't be there to actually _do_ anything other than be able to claim to others that they were there.
And anyone who's actually bending metal isn't going to have $1500 to blow on a conference when anyone worth talking to goes to Space Access. Besides, the hospitality suite at Space Access is way better!
My fear is that Esther will try and insert herself into the policy discussions if you let her.
Posted by Michael Mealling at February 28, 2005 09:36 AM
Well, Bezos and Branson probably won't be at Space Access, but it doesn't look like Esther got them either...
Posted by Rand Simberg at February 28, 2005 09:43 AM
Three cheers for Space Access! (Both as an institution and as a goal.) We'll be there this year, as usual. SA has the best signal:noise ratio of any conference I attend, and it has that cozy insiders' feel... so should we be talking it up so much?
Real deals get made at SA, too, such as our first investment and our first launch license (of many).
Posted by Doug Jones at February 28, 2005 10:28 AM
Don't forget the annual AirVenture, the EAA's monumental fly-in at Oshkosh 25 - 31 July this year.
http://www.airventure.org/
Posted by Aleta at February 28, 2005 05:13 PM
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