Re: Call for hosts for GUADEC 2009

2008-04-29 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 22:39 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 08:48 +1000, Andrew Cowie wrote: If keeping the costs down is a factor, then perhaps some attempt should be made to return the conference forward in the calendar a bit. Too late for 2008, of course, but

Re: Call for hosts for GUADEC 2009

2008-04-29 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 19:00 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Rodrigo Moya wrote: I wouldn't mind having a joint skiing/hacking conference there :-) Crazy idea (tell me if I've been smoking the wacky baccy): Someone offers to host the Summit at the Summit, say in Utah or Whistler? Travel

Re: Fwd: Call for hosts for GUADEC 2009

2008-04-29 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Valek, Valek Filippov wrote: I would love an extra conference in Canada, for example. But the GNOME User and Developer EUROPEAN Conference is ... well, European. Right? Btw, why the Boston Summit is always in Boston? It's not fair! There are much better places for this event. For

Re: Call for hosts for GUADEC 2009

2008-04-29 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Some good jokes in this thread this morning :). On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 13:33 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: Seriously, I went once to a ski resort, and some doctors conference was taking place in a hotel there, and I really think it would be a great thing for hackfests (maybe not for a big