Each participant will be required to pay a participation fee. The fees will be proportional to the number of PCs required to create appropriate load conditions for a given product. The money will be used to pay for the rented PCs, space, Polyteam time and other cache-off expenses. It is hard to accurately estimate the price tag at this point because we have limited knowledge about test conditions. 3.5 Magazines participation and press coverage Trade magazines often have to select winners when they publish our reports.
Some magazines also have to assign weights to various categories.
Having cache-off reports published in magazines helps to reach larger audience and increases the likelihood of vendor participation. Note that magazines seem to have no money to sponsor events like cache-offs so money is not an issue here. Polyteam wants to hear vendor opinions on the presentation matters before finalizing the agreements with the magazines. If you have any suggestions or comments relevant to the meeting please share them with us. Additions to the agenda are also welcome.