[LGM] Fwd: lgm 2018: a B. town as a B-plan?

[Dave Neary]

GUADEC, Blender Conference, FOSDEM, RMLL come to mind as candidates from
the free software world.

Dave.

On 06/26/2017 03:42 PM, Valessio Brito wrote:
> Is there any rejection of doing the LGM in or in parallel part of
> another major conference?
> 
> It could map major conferences and as an attempt to bring together, do
> something in parallel.
> 
> In 2018 the Debian Conference should meet in Taiwan[1]. Usually we are
> between 300 and 500 participants.
> 
> [1] https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf18
> 
> PS:
> I'm going to Montreal for the next few weeks and plan to stay for a
> couple of months. Someone on the list in Canada? Call me in private.
> 
> Cheers,
> Valessio Brito
> 
> 
> 2017-06-26 16:35 GMT-03:00 Frank Trampe <frank.trampe at gmail.com>:
>> I completely agree, and I do hope that somebody comes up with a European
>> venue. Until one materializes, though, I'm going to continue working the
>> Hong Kong prospect. Even if only ten of us show up, I think that it's
>> important that we have some physical meeting called LGM in 2018. And, thanks
>> to the GIMP, it would be very easy to edit the photographs to make the
>> meeting look like a huge success.
>>
>> I was going to offer to host in Saint Louis, but, with immigration controls
>> tightening by the week, I believe that turnout would still be better in Hong
>> Kong.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Øyvind Kolås <pippin at gimp.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: ale rimoldi <ale at graphicslab.org>
>>>> Date: Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 10:39 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [LGM] lgm 2018: a B. town as a B-plan?
>>>>> Frank Trampe wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm working on Hong Kong.
>>>>
>>>> wow
>>>>
>>>> well, then, you folks can simply ignore my proposition.
>>>
>>> After this years Latino GIMP Meeting, which Frank was one of the few
>>> attendees of - i think it is a bad idea to consider/attempt organizing
>>> LGM somewhere that is not close, cheap and convenient for European
>>> attendees. Due to level of attendance, and thus lack of organizational
>>> continuity - LGM almost stopped this year after a decade, attempting a
>>> non-european LGM right now would probably both alienate and discourage
>>> the traditional core tribe/attendees of LGM.
>>>
>>> /pippin
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