Hi Flo, On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Florian Effenberger <flo...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > Hi Leif, > > Leif Lodahl wrote on 2011-08-17 17:48: > >> The Paris conference is in October and honestly, can we make a decision >> before that? If not, lets leave it for the moment. > > yes and no. I agree that we can spend our time with lots of other important > things. However, keep in mind that if we wait until the Paris conference is > over, first the next year's team misses the opportunity to collaborate with > this year's team, plus the preparation time for the teams gets shorter day > by day, not to forget the Christmas vacations.
As Leif said, it could be good to define the strusture of the call for location now, but make the call much later. There is a lot to define first, and this year conf wil help us even if we are several now to have already organized that kind of event. We can help and share with the next team later on. > > I'm not saying we need to announce the next year's venue at Paris, but I > would like to at least start the process. So we should begin to list things on the wiki. > >> My suggestion is that we raise the question for discussion: Should the >> conference always be in Europe or should we circulate it. Or should we >> perhaps have a main conference circulating and separate "local" >> conferences >> on each continent. Many thoughts could come around, but we can't make a >> final decision before Paris. In the future it could be a good idea to >> announce next years revenue on this years conference but not this year. > > That's indeed a tough question. I recall it from OpenOffice.org times as > well. IMHO Louis had the proposal of having a fixed set of countries or even > cities, amongst several continents, organizing the conference, so people can > plan and every continent has a chance. > > However, looking at last year's proposals, it became harder and harder to > find a well balanced proposal, with financial support and the like, plus > reachability by the target audience. > > There has also been the proposal of hosting a "RegiCon", a regional > conference, besides the main conference. > > These are indeed proposals we can look into. First, however, I would like to > see who would like to apply at all. If we only get proposals from, let's say > Europe and the US, we don't need to think about hosting a conference in > Asia, because no organizer is there.... > > But, indeed, it's a tough question, I totally agree, and I really would like > to give everyone a fair chance of participating at our conference, which is > Europe-centric at the moment. I think we should start now with the content of the call for location and what should not be avoided when setting it. Kind regards Sophie -- Founding member of The Document Foundation -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
