Fred Kuu, HBX blogger, is pointing people towards the Web Analytics Wednesday event in Mountain View, CA next week. I’m pleased to see that the folks at Fireclick are sponsoring drinks, so nice of them!

It raises a good question about sponsoring these events. In general, I don’t have any problem with vendors or private parties ponying up money to buy the drinks at Web Analytics Wednesday events. As long as sponsors aren’t making people provide any information, something like “if you give me your phone number you can drink free …” which seems cheesy to me, I’m not going to stop anyone from buying drinks. This would also take some of the pressure off of Jacques Warren and the Web Analytics Association to feel like they have to buy the first round every month.

Who knows, maybe WebTrends will sponsor a Portland event?