What I think Jordi is saying is that he wants the US sponsors to subsidize the cost of the overseas meetings. At least that's what it works out to be....
Well, that's how I interpreted it also. What I found mind-boggling was the idea that companies that volunteer to host one meeting would somehow be willing to subsidize meetings held elsewhere. Last I knew it was already quite difficult to find sponsors, and somehow this doesn't seem like a good way to express our gratitude to them for their generosity.
I have also been of the impression that our hotel bills and meeting fees were paying for most of the cost of our meetings, and that the sponsors were mostly providing local logistical support and paying for incidental costs - terminal room and wireless, t-shirts, subsidizing the social, etc. And since the meeting fees are more-or-less constant and independent of location, to me it seems like the US-only _attendees_ are already partially subsidizing the cost of overseas meetings. Which doesn't seem entirely "fair" but might be "reasonable" - unlike the idea to penalize _sponsors_ of US meetings.
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