Hi Tracy.
>Recommendation: next year, perhaps have a low-cost registration for attending the sessions online only (maybe via webex or something similar so the participant actually can see the slides and presenter's desktop clearly). Participants should be able to participate in all of the raffles, etc as long as they register and pay before the keynote. Another way to help pay for the conference and I think a lot of folks would participate.
We'll discuss the online registration. Participating in raffles isn't really feasible because we'd have to ship the prize, which adds both admin costs and labor.
>Also, please post somwhere how folks who did not attend the SWFox conference can contribute to the fund to bring a worthy developer from overseas to next year's conference.
See
http://www.swfox.net/ambassador.aspx.
Doug