[Libre-graphics-meeting-org] LGM 2017 in Niteroi/Rio de Janeiro ?

[Liam R E Quin]

On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 10:00:50 +0200 Femke Snelting <snelting at collectifs.net> wrote:

> We realise that we were just a small group at the meeting so we invite those who were missing to respond before *Thursday 22 October 00:00 CET* on the LGM-org mailinglist. We particularly like to hear confirmations or disagreements from those that are involved in preparing LGM 2016: Nate Willis, Louis Desjardins, Antonio Roberts, Phil Langley, ginger coons, Julien Deswaef, Liam Quin, Loraine Furter, Manuel Schmalstieg, Camille Bissuel, Martin Owens, Dave Crossland and Greg Pittman.

My involvement is more limited than I'd like but I think for several reasons that Rio is a better choice for 2017 than Singapore. That doesn't mean I think Singapore would be a bad choice in, say, 2019 or 2020, but I think Rio feels closer to an incremental step to embrace a community that's already communicating with us, whereas I think we've had less involvement with Singapore. A 2,000 person conference can make bolder choices in that regard than a 200 or even 500-person conference.

I'm not sure what to do about the cost of travel. One possibility might be to have multiple levels of reimbursement, maybe including "Only 25% of flight, but paid immediately you arrive at the conference". Another might be to put a little more pressure on some of the individual projects, although at least some of those already contribute in their own way, e.g. paying travel or accommodation. Another might be to have some paid tutorials/workshops/masterclasses before the conference.

But I'm in favour of trying Rio de Janeiro for 2017, especially if it's followed by Europe or North America in 2018.

Best,

Liam

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