On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Germán Poó-Caamaño <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > For what it is worth, we have discussed GUADLAC in previous years (I > > think as far back as 2004, maybe 2003?) but it typically foundered on > > travel costs, which were always unacceptably high for some large group > > (given the continent's large size). In the end regional conferences > > (like FISL or the various gnome.cl get-togethers) seemed more > > reasonable. That said, I agree it would be cool and if people can make > > it happen I'm sure we could get some support for it- I'd love to go. > > The LatinAmerican 'Idol' Tour could helps to factorize the costs. > > If Forum do Gnome (Brazil) is held joint to Latinoware, we will have two > conferences in two weeks. As far as I remember, Diego Escalante was > looking for something similar in Perú. Still is possible to organize > something between to make a more productive trip for invited speakers.
To be clear, the problem with GUADLAC wasn't the speakers, it was the audience- getting the large brazilian group to chile, or the large chilean group to brazil, or _________________ (fill in blank) made a single GUADLAC a problem. I agree that a series of smaller conferences back-to-back would at least make the speakers a better value, but it wouldn't unite the continent in one place, which is a shame :/ Luis _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
