Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008

["Fernando Herrera" <fherrera onirica com>]

Well, I would love a GUADEC in Morocco, however, I doubt that we had
the necessary local group there for organizing it. :(

Salu2


On 3/23/07, Christian F.K. Schaller <christian fluendo com> wrote:
> I think we should in general encourage people who think they are located
> in a place that make it feasible for people in west Europe and the  US
> to go there to apply to host GUADEC. Even if they are not in Europe per
> se. For instance I it struck me that Morocco could be a good alternative
> when I was there, as its cheap in terms of food and lodging, yet
> reasonably well connected with cheap flights (EasyJet flies to Marrakesh
> from both London and Madrid for example). I am sure places like Egypt,
> Israel, non-European parts of Turkey and Russia have similar setups.
> Of course even within 'Europe' we have kept things quite far to the west
> so far so there is for sure opportunities for a spread of applicants
> even with that constraint in place.
>
> Christian
>
>
> On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 09:55 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
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> > Anne Østergaard wrote:
> > > Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008
> > >
> > > GUADEC is the yearly GNOME Users and Developers European Conference.
> >
> > Does that automatically exclude those outside EU from sending proposals ?
> >
> > :Sankarshan
> >
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