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<div>That's great news, given the huge number of contributors from South America.</div>
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<div>However, I wonder whether Brazil will be able to manage this. I mean, organising the world's biggest sporting event last year and doing the same for the second-biggest event next year is one thing, but hosting LGM? How will the country cope with the mass influx of Libre Graphics users, contributors, and coders, including, in some cases, their spouses and children? Will the stadiums for birds-of-a-feather sessions be ready by 2017, and will they provide electricity and WiFi? How many poor natives will have to be relocated to build luxury apartments and hotels for the rich LGM crowd?</div>
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<div>Most importantly: Will the outcome of the LGM-final (or semi-final) have serious implications on the next Brazilian presidential elections?</div>
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<div>Christoph</div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Gesendet:</b> Samstag, 21. November 2015 um 21:07 Uhr<br/>
<b>Von:</b> "Louis Desjardins" <louis.desjardins@gmail.com><br/>
<b>An:</b> libre-graphics-meeting@lists.freedesktop.org, "Create ML" <create@lists.freedesktop.org><br/>
<b>Betreff:</b> [CREATE] LGM 2017 - Location confirmed: Brazil</div>
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<div>Hi all,<br/>
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It’s a pleasure to announce today that a consensus has been reached among participants in the <span>LGM</span> organization towards Brazil for the <span>LGM</span> location in <span>2017</span>.<br/>
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<span>LGM</span> <span>2017</span> will take place during 4 days in the period between 15-Apr-<span>2017</span> and 31-May-<span>2017</span>.<br/>
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The conference will be hosted either in a University on Niteroi city Municipality or in the city of Rio de Janeiro. We are now entering in conversations to secure a nice place. Connections with local developer and designer (users) community will be prioritized.<br/>
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*Dates* and *venue* will be announced within the next few weeks.<br/>
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<div>Looking forward for a super LGM #12 in 2017!<br/>
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<div>Cheers!</div>
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Louis</div>
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