>>Perhaps I am mistaken. If so, I apologize (to you, and to Tamar) for over-estimating talents / abilities.
There's also motivation. User Group meetings happen because people volunteer to present and others decide to attend. If those who do neither start assembling towers of extra expectation with snide comments about competence for those who will not put out, it can sour the experience for everybody. Seems to me it is for volunteers to decide the extent of their willingness which probably would be maximized if there is reciprocity rather than everything always expected to flow one way.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
