fwiw I'm staying silent because of this threeschyzofrenic feeling, having colleagues in the three proposals. I have no doubts the three teams have what it takes to organize this kind of event.
I just want to be precise on something: On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Finland bid will obviously (?) have Nokia backing, so we should have > a good site, some people working to organise and have a very smoothly > run conference. They've done a lot of advance work, and Finland is a > solid (if slightly pricey) option. Nokia hasn't been involved at all in the Tampere candidature. All the merits belong to the http://coss.fi team, they have done a very good job defining an interesting offer in a city with plenty of available infrastructure in July and a Ryanair airport. As explained in their report, they get all the support from the local public institutions. The venue is a university and the team is independent. In terms of sponsorship, Nokia has been supporting GUADEC since 2005. This year with Trolltech inside is also sponsoring aKademy. I would be surprised I next year Nokia wouldn't be sponsoring the joint event, no matter where it happens. Of course the Nokians are interested about the idea of having a GUADEC+aKademy in Finland for the first time, but don't you think that they put ugly faces on the prospect of visiting Galicia or the Canary Islands. ;) -- Quim Gil /// http://flors.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
