[LGM] LGM in Europe?

[Jehan Pagès]

Hi,

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 5:41 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-05-04 at 17:15 +0200, Jehan Pagès wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Honestly, keep it in Europe. I'm in Boston USA, and while I'd love
> another Canadian (the USA itself being black listed) event, if you
> focus on making a great LGM experience in Europe, then provide a
> template for other LGM activities elsewhere.
>
> There's no reason why an Asian, Afrian or South American versions of
> LGM can't also exist in the same year as Big LGM in Europe, certainly
> if you want to encourage those communities to grow and maybe even have
> a higher developer representation online.

Well yes but then we just never "mix" communities. We stay between
ourselves and don't meet others. I think both kind of events have
their good points. Some events are local and that's good. But some
events are made to be international which allows to broaden your
views. And that was for me the case of LGM. I hope it won't change
because I really liked this.

For information, when I first contributed to GIMP, I used to live in
Korea, then in Japan, then in New Zealand. Not everyone is in Europe.
Even though I now am, I will most likely go somewhere else in the next
few years.

> This year for us I think, there wasn't an LGM. And that left us weaker
> I think in Inkscape than if we'd had a Euro-centric LGM. It seems
> unfair, but it doesn't have to be if we can provide support for local
> LGMs.

I agree, this was very sad for us too to be nearly the only
non-Brazilian representative (fortunately there were a few others
though). If funding could be handled differently, I guess this would
help. No need to stay always in the same countries. No?

Jehan

> Best Regards, Martin Owens
> Perspectives from Inkscape.
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