[LGM] LGM in Paris?

[Frank Trampe]

That's fine, but let's set the bar high. As I said before, I think that
local interest and energy are a lot more important than location, and I
don't want to sacrifice those. I could probably host in Hong Kong in 2020,
but I don't think that, with the nature of my network there, I could
deliver participants the way you can.


On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmottard at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 3:29 PM, Simon Budig <simon at budig.de> wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > Frank Trampe (frank.trampe at gmail.com) wrote:
> >> Your speed and efficiency in putting this together caught me off-guard!
> >> Saarbrucken and Milan are both firmly back onboard, so we're probably
> >> looking at 2020 for Paris.
> >
> > Hm, maybe there is a misunderstanding here. My understanding was, that
> > Saarbrücken and Milan were alternate options for 2018, with Paris 2019
> > being a chance to somewhat restore the 2 years rhythm again.
>
> This was also what I understood. I have to say I was a bit bumped by
> the idea of pushing it a year backward.
>
> Now I also perfectly understand that it may be nicer to the previous
> hosts to consider them first. I can't really say since I am biased
> here. What I can say though is that for 2020, it will likely have to
> wait for a year for me to maybe do a formal proposal because it's too
> far away (as said in previous email).
>
> > Putting Paris down for 2020 also would mean that we have europe-based
> > LGMs for three years in a row. While I am sure that being picky is
> > currently not the best of our options I was secretly hoping, that (for
> > europens) more remote options would show up as well.
>
> I actually completely agree. Not only for Europeans but even more for
> non-European. My opinion is that LGM is too Europe-centric. Well
> that's normal since it was born there, but for a Free Software/Libre
> Art event, more borderless openness would be more than appreciated.
>
> One of the counterpoint is that it usually means that some of the
> European people won't come because it is too expensive. Right. But
> have we thought about the non-European people who can't come to Europe
> for the same reason?
> One of the good side of Rio's LGM is that since there was less
> international people, we ended up meeting more locals (compared to
> other LGMs IMO). And this was very refreshing to see what they do with
> FLOSS.
>
> Other stuff I heard was that in Asia, there were some viruses, and
> whatnot. I was a bit shocked by this kind of reaction as a reason to
> not get out of Europe to say the least.
>
> All this to say that yeah, I'd be totally in favor of not doing it in
> Paris in 2020 (just dropping the Paris proposition) if we get a good
> non-European proposal.
>
> Jehan
>
> > Hm. Dunno. Seems we have some sort of luxury problem now   :)
> >
> > Bye,
> >         Simon
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