On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Ted Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 14:38 -0400, Adam Schreiber wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:34 PM, BJörn Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Usa isn't the only country in North America. Maybe Canada or Mexico > > > has less strict rules about visas? It is not hard to imagine that the > > > Americans might feel that it is a little unfair that guadec always is > > > in Europe. Couldn't there be two conferences? > > > > I too would appreciate another North/Central/South America based > > conference if GUADEC can't be moved across the pond occasionally. > > However, I suspect that because the GNOME summit is held in Boston > > every year we will have to make due. > > It seems to me that the Boston Summit should turn into the "Americas > Conference" and leave GUADEC as the "European Conference". While I know > that there are a lot of GNOME Folks in Boston, it would seem that moving > it around the Americas would be reasonable. > > Now all we need is a cleaver acronym for it :)
But what if most of your regular collaborators are on the other side of the pond? GNOME is a global project, and developers are not organized into projects by geographic location. I think there's a big benefit to having one 'official' conference where you know most GNOME hackers will be attending. Having additional local sub-conferences is great as well, but I don't see the benefit of having several competing 'main' conferences. -- jonner _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
