Kyle Lippincott <spect...@pewpew.net> writes: > On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 9:16 AM, Boris FELD <lothiral...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I have also been in contact with Mercurial contributors, small >> contributors and users from Europe. From what we heard, it's both a >> question of time involvements and energy cost that is a rebuttal to them. >> It's not the same time and energy cost to make a 6 hours roundtrip travel >> to the neighboring country versus doing a 24 hours round trip and 8 hours >> jetlag travel to Japan. >> >> I think the sprint is a great way for small contributors to be motivated >> to keep being involved and sometimes become core contributors. It is also a >> great opportunity for wild users to discuss their workflows, ask their >> questions and give us their feedback. I've met many of these European users >> and small contributor and would be sad to skip an opportunity to keep in >> touch with them. >> > > These same reasonings can be *for* having a sprint in Asia as well. :) We > have two regular contributors who regularly attend sprints that are in > Japan already, and at least one more on the IRC channel that expressed > interest in attending a Japan sprint because they're in Japan; they've > never attended a Mercurial sprint before. > > >> >> For community members who aren't accustomed to international traveling, it >> would be even harder for them to travel to a country with a different >> money, a different language with more challenge to interact in a common >> language and a different culture. This seems one of the core reason why >> having sprints on different continents. >> >> I think start connecting with the Japan contributors and users is a great >> opportunity, I would just hope it would not be at the expense of the >> European community which has been waiting for this sprint for a year. My >> preference is to keep the next sprint in Europe and introduce a Japan >> sprint with more concertation. >> > > "which has been waiting for this sprint for a year" implies some guarantee > that we're going to have it in Europe every year
Well, that's been the pattern for over 6 years so I have a bit of sympathy for people assuming that. > [...] > To summarize, I'm not sure I have an answer to this question: Why, > specifically, is having the *Fall 2018* sprint (and the Spring 2020 sprint, > etc.) in Europe important, vs. having it in Europe in Spring 2019, Fall > 2020, etc.? I have to assume it's due to some issue with travel to the > previous sprint that is *atypical*, and I'm not sure I understand at the > moment what those issues are. I don't think there's anything incorrect about your reasoning. I am just trying to be conscious of the European contributors who have already made plans for a European site. It doesn't seem fair to those who have already planned based on the previous continent cycle.
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