Re: Call for hosts for GUADEC 2009

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 23:33 -0400, Clare So wrote:
> >  As for me, the reason not pushing for Canada is that a GNOME community
> >  in Canada is surprisingly non-existent.  Sure, there's you, me, and
> >  desrt.  But that's pretty much it.
> 
> Is there anyone from Western Canada?  You, me, desrt and Hub are
> living in the Eastern part of the country.
> 
> I agree with you, Behdad.  There is no point in pushing for Canada.
> Other than the size of the community, another important factor is the
> weather.  The winter here would be too shocking for a lot of people.
> (7-feet snowbank, -25C in the night, 10cm of new snow in a day ...
> just to name a few.  But hey, great for skiing, snowboarding or
> skating!)
> 
I wouldn't mind having a joint skiing/hacking conference there :-)

> Where in the world with the highest concentration of GNOME and KDE
> community?  This thread has so far been considering the GNOME
> community only.
> 
KDE seems to be more Europe-centric than GNOME, from what I know
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>