On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 06:51:38PM +0100, Loa Andersson wrote: >> Why do we place our meetings at places where it takes ridiculously long >> time to not have your visa approved on time! > > Because we are meeting in a physical location on Earth, where there > are countries and sovereign governments, and we are not a government > activity, and our participants come from all over the world? You know... we could make it a cruise in the caribbean. Attendees could fly in to any of a fairly large number of countries, then take a boat ride to the cruise ship on which the meeting is held. Also, this is not remotely a realistic scenario, but it is an exercise in thinking outside the box. And the outside of the box is all "ewwww", because cruise ships (ewwww). Nico --