On 04/30/2013 07:21 PM, Germán Póo-Caamaño wrote: > On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 19:03 +0200, Piñeiro wrote: >> [...] >> What is the point of that long previous paragraph? Sincerely, for me, >> taking into account that we are talking about a small event, just >> starting to move to a different city for the sake of moving is an overkill. > AFAIU, the idea of doing it in different city is because of last > incident in Boston. It is not for the sake of moving it.
FWIW, you are the first one mentioning that reason on the thread. > >> And as Benjamin opened the can of "Europe is far far away from >> Portland", this is even worse for people living in small cities. In my >> case I assisted the Boston summit twice (2009, 2012). And it was a >> Coruña-Madrid-Boston. In the hypothetical case of repeating this year, >> that extra "hop" would mean Coruña-Madrid-Amsterdam-Portland or >> Coruña-Madrid-Seattle-Boston. >> >>> But I'm under no illusion that for some that this might be harder to >>> get to. I'm still working the venue and hopefully I'll have something >>> by next week. >> Although working for the venue is appreciated, imho, is irrelevant. > It is relevant. Without venue or people organizing the event there is > no event. Yeah sorry, I didn't chose the proper word *. And probably it is complex to use just one word. Rewording my phrase: "Although working for the venue is appreciated, I really think that it would be better to use that effort (so time) in a different place, because, in my humble opinion, Portland is not a good option". And again, sorry if I sounded rude in my previous mail. Best regards * In the same way that I were constantly falling on a false friend, using 'assist' instead of 'attend'. -- Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
