-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht schrieb: > On 12/8/06, nescivi <nescivi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello Fons, >> >> Thursday, December 7, 2006, 11:27:43 PM, you wrote: >> FA> On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 09:34:09PM +0100, nescivi wrote: >> >> It has not yet been decided where LAC2008 will be, and we are open to >> >> proposals for this. >> >> FA> Who is 'we' ? In other words, how is this decided ? >> >> ok, last year the TU Berlin proposed to host LAC2007 to the ZKM and >> after some discussion with them, it was decided to make it so. >> We had some discussion during LAC2006 with the people involved >> organising the last LAC's about what the future would look like for >> the LAC, but we have not come to a definite conclusion yet. >> I suppose we will need to continue this discussion on LAC2007 to come >> together to a good solution. >> >> Sincerely, >> Marije Baalman > > HI Marije, > What's the 'TU Berlin'? Technical University, simple for me - I live around the corner, compared to you ;-) Still the Question from Fons has not been answered yet, Who are you? The Staff of the TU Rektor? Have you got a website up (if not: do you need any help, to setup one?) > Anyway, I have no say in this and probably never will until I get > rich. Germany is a long, long way from California so travel costs are > prohibitive. Being that Linux Audio is world wide it's going to be > that way for lots of people no matter where it's held. TUs name has some reputation, so if the TU would ask for sponsoring travelling costs, it may have a good chance to get some checks. Though sponsoring culture is somewhat underdeveloped in Germ... > > I think the folks who set this one up for the last 5 years should > be able to have it where they want. Cheers to them and ZKM for all > their efforts over the years. > > Maybe, if there was enough interest, there should be some thought > towards doing conferences like this on more than one continent each > year? LAC-Europe, but also LAC-Buffalo, LAC-Panda, LAC-Kangaroo, etc.? Yeahhh LACs for everybody everywhere!! Out of obvious reasons (refer my nick) I like the idea of having a LAC here in Berlin very much ;-) But of course I agree, that travelling costs should be no hindrance for interesting and interested international Linux-Audio-Makers to come. So fundraising should be made.... best regards Z p.s.: I would be honoured to host a guest in my flat and donate a small amount of money to buy tickets(sometimes it is not perfectly easy for us to raise the money to pay the rent for the abovementioned flat, so dont expect a Shuttleworthish amount ;-) ). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFehe11Aecwva1SWMRAjimAJ9HxkvhWaglVTsCYuICyRRtJWLD3wCghcuo 0JRV7p3QIqfkyMwQBGhssCc= =P93g -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
