[ANNOUNCE] Damian Conway Speaking at London.pm: Monday, 10th March

[Dominic Humphries]

I'd buy DVDs! :)


On 6 March 2014 10:41:17 Damian Conway <damian at conway.org> wrote:

> Just to elaborate on Sue's kind explanation:
>
> I make my entire living from speaking (in one form or another). And I
> ask not to have my community talks recorded because I also sell many of
> those presentations to paying clients...who generally wouldn't buy them
> if they could just download them for free from YouTube.
>
> So, whereas most speakers have a programming job that subsidizes their
> occasional speaking, speaking *is* my day job and subsidizes my
> occasional programming. Hence it's a question of only giving away my one
> saleable "product" in small samples, rather than distributing it for free 
> to the
> entire world.
>
> I genuinely regret that I can't allow my talks to be more widely distributed.
> But then I'd be forced to get a real job...and that's clearly not in anyone's
> best interest. ;-)
>
> Damian