On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 10:36 -0400, Ryan Abel wrote: > On Oct 7, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Jamie Bennett wrote: > > > For the summit to be its most successful it needs to be held where > > most > > of its target audience is physically based or can get to easily. If > > the > > majority of community members and contributors are in Europe then it > > makes no sense to hold the summit in Australia for instance. Too much > > cost for interested people to attend and too expensive for Nokia to > > ship > > people there on mass. Of course key contributing members should be > > sponsored regardless of where they are based. > > > Which is fine, but why should we hold the Summit on the same continent > every time? Switch it up a bit and shift the costs around some by > changing the continent every so often. Problem solved. ;)
But how many of the first summit European attendees would be at summit 2 in the US without sponsorship and how many people missed out this time because it was in Europe? Interesting statistic maybe? > Ryan Abel > Maemo Community Council chair Regards, Jamie -- http://www.linuxuk.org
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