On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 20:03 +0100, Luc Pionchon wrote:
> On 4 March 2014 19:51, Germán Póo-Caamaño <g...@gnome.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 10:15 +0000, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> >> wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20140225
> >>
> >> = Minutes for Tuesday, February 25th, 2014, 17:00 UTC =
> >>
> >> == Next Meeting ==
> >>  * Monday, March 3rd, 2014, 16:00 UTC
> >> [...]
> >>   * Should we set aside funding for a South American event box?
> >>    * '''ACTION''': Kat to ask South American events organisers for the
> >> Foundation to sponsor an event box
> >>    * Expected cost: USD 1000 to USD 2500
> >>    * https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/Grants/EventsBox
> >
> > This can turn out very expensive and inconvenient for people there.
> >
> > Have in mind that South America is bigger than appears in the map. Just
> > for a reference, Ecuador -that tiny country in the map- looks smaller
> > than France, but it is ~70,000 square kms bigger, it doubles size UK.
> 
> interesting.
> 
> France is about 550.000 km2, Ecuador seems to be 280.000 km2 and UK 240.000 
> km2

Yeah, that happens when you get some information in metric and some in
imperial and your brain is trained only for metric.

-- 
Germán Poo-Caamaño
http://calcifer.org/

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