[CREATE] LGM 2009

[Anders Kvist]

I vote Amsterdam, even tough I would like to visit Singapore :)

A round-trip from Aalborg (Denmark) -> Singapore will cost about 1000 
EUR and Amsterdam will be around 275 EUR. The prices I found were a bit 
cheaper than what we paid for the Aalborg -> Wroclaw tickets.

The price from Aalborg -> Amsterdam is no problem paying, but for 
Singapore I guess more people (myself included) will need funding to be 
able to join.


/Anders



Craig Bradney wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 June 2008 18:23:10 Jon Phillips wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 17:16 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote:
>>     
>>> 2008/6/11 Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org>:
>>>       
>>>> go to Amsterdam to see what Ton has built and copy, emulate it
>>>> ... blender institute is a brilliant model for funding free
>>>> and open development.
>>>>         
>>> +1
>>>       
>> At the end of the day, the best way to insure participation is to figure
>> out the cheapest way to get people to some location.
>>
>> Jon
>>     
>
> Singapore will never be cheapest, that means hauling people from the US and 
> Europe to Asia.. and when we are gathering sponsorship, it only makes sense 
> to push the sponsors' money as far as it can go. I dont see it reasonable to 
> pay 1000 USD or euro per person when we can do that for half the people and 
> the rest for a lot less. Add to that the travel time. Believe me, I would 
> also love Australia so I can go home for a weekend (gah).. but still.. I dont 
> see it reasonable at this point. Maybe once the conference is 5yo, can we 
> claim for a bigger event etc, with more sponsors and further distances...
>
> As for the US, has anyone considered the limitations that might bring when you 
> have developers actively decoding/reverse engineering in countries that allow 
> it, but not in a potential host country?
>
> I'm for Amsterdam this time around, especially if there's sponsors already in 
> the works in the form of the government there. The economics make more sense 
> this year around, and we might end up with a surplus to put towards the 
> following year too.
>
> My 3.5c
> Craig
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