On Wednesday, November 10, 2010 10:07:51 pm Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 08:58:45PM +0000, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Mark Chappell <tremble@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 10 November 2010 10:32, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> What about one global FUDCon accompanied with smaller local events - > > >> like one day FADs + hackfests. I see it working for other projects, > > >> it's of course more expensive but it helps breaking barriers, makes > > >> it easier to meet all people. I can compare EMEA and NA FUDCons. And > > >> I really enjoyed NA one. > > > > > > If you're going to do that, please rotate where you hold it. It's a > > > lot cheaper for Europeans to travel around Europe than to travel over > > > to the US, so if you only held them in the US you're putting a > > > significant barrier in place for the Europeans. > > > > The only globally fair way to hold a conference is to pick a place > > that is equally difficult for most everyone to get to. FUDCon South > > Pole 2013 sounds equitable in that regard. > > Southern hemisphere folks are much closer to that than norhtern hemisphere > folks; certain countries fly to the south pole more frequently than others. > > Clearly, FUDCon At the Earth's Core is the fairest venue. Too hot for some northerm nations! Jaroslav > > ;-) > > -Toshio -- Jaroslav ÅeznÃk <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno Office: +420 532 294 275 Mobile: +420 602 797 774 Red Hat, Inc. http://cz.redhat.com/ _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
