On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 11:29 +0100, Christian F.K. Schaller wrote: > I think we should in general encourage people who think they are located > in a place that make it feasible for people in west Europe and the US > to go there to apply to host GUADEC. Even if they are not in Europe per > se. For instance I it struck me that Morocco could be a good alternative > when I was there, as its cheap in terms of food and lodging, yet > reasonably well connected with cheap flights (EasyJet flies to Marrakesh > from both London and Madrid for example). I am sure places like Egypt, > Israel, non-European parts of Turkey and Russia have similar setups. > Of course even within 'Europe' we have kept things quite far to the west > so far so there is for sure opportunities for a spread of applicants > even with that constraint in place. I'll talk w/ our local GUG about if we can organize to host GUADEC next year in Istanbul.
> > Christian > > > On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 09:55 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Anne Østergaard wrote: > > > Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008 > > > > > > GUADEC is the yearly GNOME Users and Developers European Conference. > > > > Does that automatically exclude those outside EU from sending proposals ? > > > > :Sankarshan > > > > - -- > > > > You see things; and you say 'Why?'; > > But I dream things that never were; > > and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > > > iD8DBQFGAgUgXQZpNTcrCzMRAiSpAJ9xk0fSv+cjrYjXMdNAQUMe7X+DVgCggLwA > > u1BMR2UYThx1RnYeSh7V6Bs= > > =hCGB > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
