On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
anyway, for all people interested, i received more info about Brazil and LGM (as feedback on an identi.ca message i sent): in Brazil, it seems something similar to LGM actually exists in Brazil, itinerant to FISL meetings - they may have some interesting background for when happening a worldwide-focused LGM there, whatever in 2011 or 2012, what can be considered as an awesome good start: http://LGM.SoftwareLivre.org http://listas.softwarelivre.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lgm-br -- Don't give Microsoft the remote control. Don't use Windows 7. <http://windows7sins.org> _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
