On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 10:19:34AM -0500, Jorge Amodio wrote:
As others said you are doing a "public service" to the rest of the community and if you give a nice and valuable talk you will get the recognition of the NANOG community and your colleagues, and we can put into consideration including a gold star sticker for your service.
Field observations suggest that presenters are more likely to be heckled than recognized for said service to the NANOG community. (c: As hard as it can be to find good talks for the program, giving people incentive to take time out of their busy work schedules to prepare a good talk does not seem unreasonable.
It will be really unfair for those paying (even if their companies do it for them or don't care because they have a mountain of cash) if there is a special benefit for some so they don't pay.
So far the speaker exemption doesn't seem to have been very contentious unless I've missed something. --msa