Re: "Boston" Summit 2013?

[Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com>]

On 04/30/2013 07:21 PM, Germán Póo-Caamaño wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 19:03 +0200, Piñeiro wrote:
> > [...]
> > What is the point of that long previous paragraph? Sincerely, for me,
> > taking into account that we are talking about a small event, just
> > starting to move to a different city for the sake of moving is an overkill.
> AFAIU, the idea of doing it in different city is because of last
> incident in Boston.  It is not for the sake of moving it.

FWIW, you are the first one mentioning that reason on the thread.

> > And as Benjamin opened the can of "Europe is far far away from
> > Portland", this is even worse for people living in small cities. In my
> > case I assisted the Boston summit twice (2009, 2012). And it was a
> > Coruña-Madrid-Boston. In the hypothetical case of repeating this year,
> > that extra "hop" would mean Coruña-Madrid-Amsterdam-Portland or
> > Coruña-Madrid-Seattle-Boston.
> >
> > > But I'm under no illusion that for some that this might be harder to
> > > get to.  I'm still working the venue and hopefully I'll have something
> > > by next week.
> > Although working for the venue is appreciated, imho, is irrelevant.
> It is relevant.  Without venue or people organizing the event there is
> no event.

Yeah sorry, I didn't chose the proper word *.  And probably it is
complex to use just one word. Rewording my phrase: "Although working for
the venue is appreciated, I really think that it would be better to use
that effort (so time) in a different place, because, in my humble
opinion, Portland is not a good option".

And again, sorry if I sounded rude in my previous mail.

Best regards

* In the same way that I were constantly falling on a false friend, 
using 'assist' instead of 'attend'.

-- 
Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias