[CREATE] Decision for LGM 2011 venue — Action required

[Paulo Silva]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine
<alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/26/10, Louis Desjardins wrote:
>
>> We have 3 bids (in alphabetical order):
>> Brasil: http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference_2011_Brasil_Bid
>> Canada: http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference_2011_Montr%C3%A9al_Bid
>> Vietnam:  http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference_2011_Vietnam_Bid
>
> To me the choice is clear between Brazil and Vietnam, because (sorry,
> Louis :)) Montreal conferences have always been more like meetings of
> developers and presence of actual users was scarce. After this year's
> success going back to just developers meetings (which also not
> everybody can attend, like last year) to me is losing momentum and
> thus is out of question.
>
> Both Brazil and Vietnam will lose us a number of developers who could
> attend a conference in Europe or Canada, for a number of reasons,
> which means that to make the conference successful we need to make it
> well attended by actual users of software in question. Again, if we
> want to keep the momentum, we will need:
>
> 1. Local team that is in touch with local communities of graphics
> designers, DTP specialists, 3D artists, architects and so on.
>
> 2. Actual local communities of [see above].
>
> 3. Several local (language barrier, difference in cultures) activists
> who actually use the software in question professionally to do
> workshops. This is less important if we have people like rejon and
> andyfitz aboard who have spent a considerable amount of time in Asia.
>
> 4. Some of the past organizers around at least several days before
> start of the conference to help sorting out things (better -- a week
> before).
>
> After reading Vietnam bid I see a lot of clear honest information on
> just about everything. There is much less information on the Brazil
> bid.
>
> Both bids however miss detailed information on local communities (yes,
> we know some of the best FLOSS designers are in Brazil, but
> nevertheless). On the other hand after checking translations of
> related free applications I see that Brazil got there, while Vietnam
> is only getting there, and that, in my opinion, says a lot about local
> communities.
>
> And thus I don't see a clear winner as of now.
>
> Alexandre Prokoudine
> http://libregraphicsworld.org
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anyway, for all people interested, i received more info about Brazil
and LGM (as feedback on an identi.ca message i sent):
in Brazil, it seems something similar to LGM actually exists in
Brazil, itinerant to FISL meetings - they may have some interesting
background for when happening a worldwide-focused LGM there, whatever
in 2011 or 2012, what can be considered as an awesome good start:

http://LGM.SoftwareLivre.org
http://listas.softwarelivre.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lgm-br




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