On Mon, 30.06.08 22:21, Behdad Esfahbod ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Quick reminder that we are all ears to hear your comments about the > three proposals. Please send them sooner rather than later.
Here are my three reasons to prefer Gran Canaria: 1. The money. I know that a non-trivial number of attendees had problems with the cost for food/beer/stuff in Norway and England. Finland is not cheaper than .no or .uk -- it is *very* expensive. Especially the beer part. Attendees with a corporate background, with a well-payed job won't have much problems with high cost of living for a week -- but for new contributors, students, new faces, people who won't necessarily get sponsored by the Foundation, they won't like it. Furthermore for non-europeans and non-americans the cost of living in .fi might appear astronomical. OTOH Spain might not be as cheap anymore as it used to be, however in comparison to Finland prices are certainly reasonable. And then, to the canary islands you can get charter flights from most places in europe, especially during summertime. That means very cheap flights, and a lot of direct connections. Tampere cannot really come close to that. Are there even any direct flights to Tampere, except from HEL? Of course the Canary islands are a bit off the corner of the map. But they are nonetheless relatively easy to go to, for cheap money. So, in the interest of attracting more students, more new faces, more international attendees, more people with a small budget, let's go to a place that is awesome *and* cheap. There's already a conference where mostly only those guys attend who already *have* a GNOME related job. It's the Boston Summit. Let's make sure GUADEC is a place for a much broader audience. 2. The conference tourist that I am would prefer to go to the Canary Islands, it's way more interesting from a tourtistic pov than the other two suggestions. 3. Let's face it, finnish food and beer just sucks. In Spain at least the food is very good. And to the often heard comment on "oh, no, not spain again!" I can only respond that Vilanova was one awesome conference, one of the best conferences ever. If the spaniards can throw awesome conferences, why not let them? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
