Re: Where to hold it? (was: Re: GU4DEC - Let's start the discussionnow.)

[Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc linuxweasel com>]

On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 17:45, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 01:00, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 20:29, Calum Benson wrote:
> > > Glynn Foster wrote:
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > > No, that seems like a silly thing to do. That cuts down on the amount of
> > > > time that you can leer at the pretty girls on the desk. 
> > > 
> > > True, but if we were to have it in Ireland next year there wouldn't be
> > > any pretty girls to leer at, probably just a few mad culchies if you're
> > > lucky  :)
> > > 
> > come on, of course, Spanish girls are prettier, because of the sun and
> > the food :-), but I can't believe there are no pretty girls in Ireland.
> > Are they all 'mad culchies'?
> 
> "Macho macho man". You won't get anything from the girls coming to help
> in Dublin if you say things like that, apart from a kick in the groin ;)
> 
> There are pretty girls everywhere in the world, and I don't think that
> should influence the decision on where to hold the conference... The
> quality of the beer does, that's why we won't be doing it in the US :P

Dude, that Danish beer was BAAAD...

> No, really. I think that GUADEC staying in Europe is very important. It
> was first organised because there weren't any conventions in Europe
> where hackers could get together (Amricans have Usenix, remember).

Yeah, but we can't get sponsored to go to Usenix as developers.  :-)  I
don't actually care where it is, so long as it's planned well in
advance.  I think we're on the right track here.
	Greg

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