Re: Call for hosts for GUADEC 2009

[Jonh Wendell <jwendell gnome org>]

Em Ter, 2008-04-22 às 12:13 -0700, Ted Gould escreveu:
> On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 14:38 -0400, Adam Schreiber wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> It seems to me that the Boston Summit should turn into the "Americas
> Conference" and leave GUADEC as the "European Conference".  While I know
> that there are a lot of GNOME Folks in Boston, it would seem that moving
> it around the Americas would be reasonable.
> 
> Now all we need is a cleaver acronym for it :)
> 
> 		--Ted

Oh, It would be really, really, amazing!

GUADLAC, as Behdad suggested. A GNOME Conference in Americas, with the
same structure as GUADEC (aka sponsorship).

/me wonders about a huge GNOME crowd here in Brazil... :-)

-- 
Jonh Wendell
www.bani.com.br