Re: Call for hosts for GUADEC 2009

["Adam Schreiber" <sadam clemson edu>]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:34 PM, BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne gmail com> wrote:
> Usa isn't the only country in North America. Maybe Canada or Mexico
>  has less strict rules about visas? It is not hard to imagine that the
>  Americans might feel that it is a little unfair that guadec always is
>  in Europe. Couldn't there be two conferences?

I too would appreciate another North/Central/South America based
conference if GUADEC can't be moved across the pond occasionally.
However, I suspect that because the GNOME summit is held in Boston
every year we will have to make due.

Cheers,

Adam

>
>  2008/4/22, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>:
>
>
> > On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 13:17 -0400, Og Maciel wrote:
>  > > Hi there,
>  > >
>  > > As I'd love to see GUADEC (as well as Akademy) being hosted in North
>  > > Carolina, and as this is not an official bid, I was wondering if there
>  > > is anyone interested in helping/coaching me? I don't have any
>  > > experience with this kind of activity, but I do know a lot of people
>  > > and we have big companies around the area such as Red Hat, IBM, rPath
>  > > as well as most of the Foresight Linux developers.
>  > >
>  > > Anyone want to adopt me?
>  >
>  > Hi Og,
>  >
>  > There are two main issues with having GUADEC in the US:
>  >
>  >   - The Big Pond.  It's just more travel to fly everyone to the US.
>  >
>  >   - US visa.  It's a real issue.  It's not a predictable and fast
>  > process like most European countries are.  It literally takes months to
>  > get a US visa for those of us that need one.  And many people going to
>  > GUADEC need one.
>  >
>  > For those reasons, I don't think having GUADEC in the US is practical as
>  > of now.  Things of course may change in the future.
>  >
>  > Cheers,
>  >
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