However I’d like to mildly dispute “Hopefully a 3-day camp wouldn’t be that expensive in terms of vacation time not spent elsewhere”.
...some of us come from another country (quite a few actually) - and the travel time alone is equal to the 3 days we’d spend on the actual camp. Plus a day or so adjusting to jetlag enough that we could even stay awake for the first day.… I’d estimate that for me to attend even the three day camp would be, at minimum, a seven day vacation.
Factor in the significant cost of the airfares, and we’re starting to talk a lot of vacation-opportunity-cost.
Obviously, attending the longer camp would be a better signal-to-noise ratio… but would still be a serious undertaking.
PS: that’s not to say, of course, that’s it’s not still worth the effort. Personally I’m looking into my options to see if I can pull it together to get to the week-long one this time…
The main point is just not to forget that a significant number of LW readers are in a quite different situation to your own and thus the difficulty of attending should not be inadvertently trivialised.
It is clear now.
However I’d like to mildly dispute “Hopefully a 3-day camp wouldn’t be that expensive in terms of vacation time not spent elsewhere”.
...some of us come from another country (quite a few actually) - and the travel time alone is equal to the 3 days we’d spend on the actual camp. Plus a day or so adjusting to jetlag enough that we could even stay awake for the first day.… I’d estimate that for me to attend even the three day camp would be, at minimum, a seven day vacation.
Factor in the significant cost of the airfares, and we’re starting to talk a lot of vacation-opportunity-cost.
Obviously, attending the longer camp would be a better signal-to-noise ratio… but would still be a serious undertaking.
PS: that’s not to say, of course, that’s it’s not still worth the effort. Personally I’m looking into my options to see if I can pull it together to get to the week-long one this time…
The main point is just not to forget that a significant number of LW readers are in a quite different situation to your own and thus the difficulty of attending should not be inadvertently trivialised.