Re: an open-audit voting system for GNOME elections

2007-03-22 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Ben, Ben Adida wrote: Currently, I am developing this using HTML+Javascript with *some* calls into the JVM for crypto. I may be able to eventually do these in pure Javascript, especially if there's a strong need, though I am hoping that's not necessary... BigNum in Javascript is going to

Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008

2007-03-22 Thread Sergey Udaltsov
But one thing is for sure - the travel costs for attendees is something which will definitely be taken into account, and in general that will exclude anything outside North America and Europe. I think excluding NA would be reasonable as well - there are so many OSS conferences on the other side

Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008

2007-03-22 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Neary wrote: But one thing is for sure - the travel costs for attendees is something which will definitely be taken into account, and in general that will exclude anything outside North America and Europe. Or, in short unless a conference

Re: Regional gatherings ROCK! [Was: GUADEC 2008]

2007-03-22 Thread Murray Cumming
On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 10:12 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Waugh wrote: These are a hugely important part of local and worldwide GNOME culture and community development. Perhaps a GNOME meeting at FOSS.IN would be a good way to

Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008

2007-03-22 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Sergey Udaltsov wrote: I think excluding NA would be reasonable as well - there are so many OSS conferences on the other side of the pond, please leave something to good old Europe:) To me the best free software conferences around aren't in the US - FOSDEM, aKademy, LSM, GUADEC, OLS,

Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008

2007-03-22 Thread Sergey Udaltsov
Perhaps the biggest free software business conferences are in the US (your LinuxWorlds and OSCons of the world), but all the best community conferences happen outside the US. OK, then let's keep it this way:) Sergey ___ foundation-list mailing list

Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008

2007-03-22 Thread Alan Cox
But one thing is for sure - the travel costs for attendees is something which will definitely be taken into account, and in general that will exclude anything outside North America and Europe. That depends upon the time of year and location. The bit of North America which is civilised to

Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008

2007-03-22 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Luke Stroven I'll footnotes it. Hrm, except it's down right now. Boh! Darn thunderstorms anyways. Its back up ;) Thanks Stro, unsung hero! (Rhymes for great justice!) - Jeff -- Open CeBIT 2007: Sydney, Australia http://www.opencebit.com.au/ And,

Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008

2007-03-22 Thread Hubert Figuiere
Alan Cox wrote: But one thing is for sure - the travel costs for attendees is something which will definitely be taken into account, and in general that will exclude anything outside North America and Europe. That depends upon the time of year and location. The bit of North America which is

Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008

2007-03-22 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Hubert Figuiere That said if there is any proposal for Canada (Montreal is IMHO a better choice than Ottawa), count me in :-) Where necessary, and in this case I think it is, we should be very clear about GNOME's geopolitical view of the world: Quebecistan is not in Europe. - Jeff

Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008

2007-03-22 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 01:35 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Hubert Figuiere That said if there is any proposal for Canada (Montreal is IMHO a better choice than Ottawa), count me in :-) Where necessary, and in this case I think it is, we should be very clear about GNOME's

Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008

2007-03-22 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 10:37 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: Does that mean that candidates outside the EU would be considered? Not sure - we would need to discuss it. But one thing is for sure - the travel costs for attendees is something which will definitely be taken into account, and in