On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 17:30 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > 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:
All well-said Lennart. Your spared me writing my comments ;). behdad > 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 -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
