[CREATE] Bad news from Amsterdam

[Jon Phillips]

I completely agree +50 

Jon

On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 16:22 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Louis Desjardins wrote:
> > It has to be understood that I am not pulling it towards "me" but as I 
> > understand it so far from the discussions, it seems that Singapore is a 
> > long-shot that we should continue to consider...
> 
> Before concluding anything in particular about the Singapore bid, we owe
> it to Andy to give him a chance to say what he's organised already, and
> what's left to do.
> 
> It's not visible from mailing list traffic, but when I spoke to Andy
> during GUADEC this year he shocked me with the amount of advance work
> he'd put into it at that stage. I told him as much, and asked him to
> mail the list with that info - he was unwilling to do that until he had
> what he considered a "solid" bid.
> 
> I guess when the Amsterdam option came along and was generally praised,
> he decided to back down from his bid. But now I'd really like to hear
> from him so that any decision that gets made is made based on full
> knowledge.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave.
> 
> 
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