I'm not sure how well that would work these days. We used to put on Amateur Seminars, first on our own, and then working with Homegrown. Farrell and I used to head up the roundtable and get discussions going, which were quite good.
The first one we did was here in Montreal in 1999 at the CybernetExpo show, and we had the "who's who" of the Amateur world at that one, plus all sorts of very new Amateurs. We then did them every year until the last one at Internext in the summer of 2003. The last couple had dwindling attendance as that was the start of the end for many Amateurs in the industry.
These days, very few Amateurs are making any money and as you know, very few actually make it to the shows. There are probably less than 10 Amateurs that make over $100K a year these days (
and that's probably stretching), as most make what we call "beer money".
But, we would be willing to help out in any way to do something for the Amateur market. After all, that has been my bread and butter for the past 13 years
-- Danny