Re: Call for hosts for GUADEC 2009

2008-04-28 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
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 something we may want to consider for > 2009. GUADEC was push

Re: Call for hosts for GUADEC 2009

2008-04-28 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 08:48 +1000, Andrew Cowie wrote: > Otherwise, if we're not worrying about budgets, then by all means. > European summers are lovely. Or elsewhere since we are not worrying about budgets in this hypothesis. Hub ___ foundation-list

Re: Call for hosts for GUADEC 2009

2008-04-28 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 17:38 +0300, Quim Gil wrote: > ...Being in Summer... This has been mentioned elsewhere, but not in this thread: the middle of summer is high season for air travel to Europe from North America and elsewhere and as a result tickets are much more expensive. Over the last 4 year

Re: Call for hosts for GUADEC 2009

2008-04-28 Thread Clare So
Hi all, > Whistler should work, yeah. I hear there's going to be a huge Firefox > summit in Whistler later this Summer. I may be attending, in which case > I'll check out the place. *BUT*, we already have Boston Summit scheduled > for October in Boston. Having another one just a few months

Re: Call for hosts for GUADEC 2009

2008-04-28 Thread Luis Villa
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 20:01 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > > Whistler should work, yeah. I hear there's going to be a huge Firefox > > > summit in Whistler later this Summer. I

Re: Call for hosts for GUADEC 2009

2008-04-28 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 20:01 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > Whistler should work, yeah. I hear there's going to be a huge Firefox > > summit in Whistler later this Summer. I may be attending, in which case > > I'll check out the place. *BUT*, we already have Boston

Re: Call for hosts for GUADEC 2009

2008-04-28 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > Whistler should work, yeah. I hear there's going to be a huge Firefox > summit in Whistler later this Summer. I may be attending, in which case > I'll check out the place. *BUT*, we already have Boston Summit scheduled > for October in Boston. Having another one ju

Re: Call for hosts for GUADEC 2009

2008-04-28 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
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

Re: Call for hosts for GUADEC 2009

2008-04-28 Thread Dave Neary
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 costs would be an issue, but fitting in some skiing over a ho

Re: Call for hosts for GUADEC 2009

2008-04-28 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 23:33 -0400, Clare So wrote: > > As for me, the reason not pushing for Canada is that a GNOME community > > in Canada is surprisingly non-existent. Sure, there's you, me, and > > desrt. But that's pretty much it. > > Is there anyone from Western Canada? You, me, desrt a