On 6/26/10, Louis Desjardins wrote: > We have 3 bids (in alphabetical order): > Brasil: http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference_2011_Brasil_Bid > Canada: http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference_2011_Montr%C3%A9al_Bid > Vietnam: http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference_2011_Vietnam_Bid
To me the choice is clear between Brazil and Vietnam, because (sorry, Louis :)) Montreal conferences have always been more like meetings of developers and presence of actual users was scarce. After this year's success going back to just developers meetings (which also not everybody can attend, like last year) to me is losing momentum and thus is out of question. Both Brazil and Vietnam will lose us a number of developers who could attend a conference in Europe or Canada, for a number of reasons, which means that to make the conference successful we need to make it well attended by actual users of software in question. Again, if we want to keep the momentum, we will need: 1. Local team that is in touch with local communities of graphics designers, DTP specialists, 3D artists, architects and so on. 2. Actual local communities of [see above]. 3. Several local (language barrier, difference in cultures) activists who actually use the software in question professionally to do workshops. This is less important if we have people like rejon and andyfitz aboard who have spent a considerable amount of time in Asia. 4. Some of the past organizers around at least several days before start of the conference to help sorting out things (better -- a week before). After reading Vietnam bid I see a lot of clear honest information on just about everything. There is much less information on the Brazil bid. Both bids however miss detailed information on local communities (yes, we know some of the best FLOSS designers are in Brazil, but nevertheless). On the other hand after checking translations of related free applications I see that Brazil got there, while Vietnam is only getting there, and that, in my opinion, says a lot about local communities. And thus I don't see a clear winner as of now. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
