PDC08

Ah, there’s movement on the PDC website. Good, I was suspecting that’d postpone it again, but it didn’t seem that likely with Windows 7 on the way. But now it’s final: there’s going to be a PDC this year.

I’m keen on going, but I had to think twice when I saw the prices: $2395 for registration only. Wow, that’s a lot. I can’t remember paying that much for PDC05, to honest. But then I thought: I need to do some dollar2euro conversions. And yes, that price seems more reasonable:

2 395 U.S. dollars = 1 543.07068 Euros

That seems better. Given that I’d like to be staying in the Fig, which is priced at $159 and that food in the US isn’t that expensive, the cost of spending a week at the PDC in LA seems fair.

But then, getting there. 3 years ago I flew to LA with British Airways, and it cost me around 600 euros. Checking that same itinerary right now brings the price to 1500 euros. So I’d be spending the same amount of money on getting there as for the conference itself.

I’ll have to check if spending over 4500 euro is worth going to the PDC. At the moment, there’s not that much interesting stuff (for my “core” business) to justify that amount. On the other hand, it’s great fun and a great boost to start developing new stuff – granted that I’ll find the time after the PDC.

I’ll wait a bit more and let it sink in for a bit. I have until August 15^th to make up my mind (supposed that I want to make use of the early bird savings). But I’d really love to go: it was fun in 2005, and it’ll be fun now too.