Hi, I would like to suggest a long term view as a way to resolve this issue.
Suppose that in a couple of weeks, there are 3 strong proposals for LGM in 2011. How is it decided which one happens in 2011? Previous years have been decided by virtue of there only being one proposal per year, as I understand it. I would like to suggest that if there are 3 strong proposals, the proposers will agree between themselves who will run LGM 2011, LGM 2012 and LGM2013. If people choose not to attend one year, because they don't like the politics of the host country, that would be unfortunate, and I hope they will attend the next year. This isn't theoretical: Last year, I remember a developer of a popular free software project objecting to Belgium because of the popularity of a religion there, and I did not see them this year. I enjoyed our conversations, and hope to see them again. I also didn't see people who couldn't afford transatlantic travel, and who couldn't get EU visas. Each country necessarily excludes some parts of the global libre graphics community. Local events can mitigate this. As at LinuxConfAU this year, having 'local' Libre Graphics events is valuable - especially when they can be recorded and published as LGM has been. If many people from some part of the world want to run an event about libre graphics, I hope they do so :-) Regards, Dave
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