You DO realize that they hold it in the states every OTHER year, right...? One year somewhere in the states and the next somewhere in Europe.
> On Sep 8, 2015, at 2:53 PM, Richmond <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 09/08/2015 09:27 PM, Lynn Fredricks wrote: >>>> "I am not likely to attend any of the above locations, and >>> I think a Central European location (e.g. Munich) might give >>> the impression that RunRev actually cared about developers >>> outside Britain and the US." >>> >>> That was exact the same i was thinking when i saw the the locations. >> They are going to look at locations based on where their user base is, which >> is why North America is going to figure quite prominently. >> >> Oh yeah, I really like Vancouver, BC Canada :-) >> >> Then there is easy access, price of flights and "comfort". That's why years >> ago we had that one in Las Vegas. There are a lot of cheap flights to Las >> Vegas from all parts of North America, and special package deals. I don't >> have any impression of how much travel costs figure into attendance, but I >> know with other specialty conferences, it does. > > "easy access, price of flights and "comfort" " > > I don't just suppose Las Vagas is easier to access by all those users in > Germany than, say, Munich. > > "comfort" ; Ahh, Oh, Yes, I forgot: Munich is outside the comfort-zone > because they speak a non-English language there. > > "from all parts of North America" . . . I wonder about all the users in > China, South and Central America, Europe and Africa. > > You cannot even see how USA-and-her-poodle (Britain) centric you are being. > > "price of flights" > > Well, yeah, I suppose you are going to say that a ticket from Berlin to Las > Vegas is cheaper than Berlin to Munich (why bother; just hop on > a bus). > > Instead of a silly, slanted survey about where to hold a conference, let's > have a less-silly survey to see where LiveCode's installed > base live . . . then, on the basis of that let's do some extrapolation from > where those people live to the places where we could > hold conferences which would be the most convenient to the most people. > > Certainly, a cursory look at the Use-list postings and those in the Forum > gives one an impression that a very large proportion > of LiveCode users are NOT native speakers of English - so I wonder where they > actually do live? > > Richmond. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Lynn Fredricks >> Paradigma Software >> http://www.paradigmasoft.com >> >> Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
