On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 04:15:22PM +0530, Vinayak Hegde wrote: > I don't know enough to comment about Myanmar but the argument for not > holding a meeting in India rings quite hollow. There has been a rising > number of participants from India (both from Indians living in India > and abroad). I completely agree that there is a rising number, but in terms of percentage of the participants, people actually living in India don't seem to be a very significant population. Indians living abroad don't count for this argument: the whole point of moving the meetings around is not to include new people, but to spread the travel burden. The principle is to travel to places near where significant numbers of participants are. (Note this also means that more-active participants' location in principle ought to weigh more.) The important question about Indian contributors living abroad is not their country of origin, but their location now. Nevertheless, I think it is almost certainly true that, if the current trend of involvement continues, we will eventually hold a meeting in India, for exactly the same reason that we held (and will doubtless eventually hold again) a meeting in China. I'll be delighted when we observe such involvement. Best, A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx