[LGM] LGM in Europe?

[Joao S. O. Bueno]

I admit I have failed to organize this LGM - just staying short of it
"do not happening at all' - and
it is mostly my fault.

So, while for some teams, it is possible to say that "effectively
there was no LGM in 2017"  -
but I don't think that should forever shut down any county outside of
Europe to ever
even try to hold an LGM - let's keep it to what it is. This was 2017.
I think it is super-important
that LGM-2018 be held in Europe if only to get most people that is
usually involved
back on business, and I have no problem if we set the next 2 or 3
LGM's to be held in Europe -

But "never again outside EU/Canada" just because one
organization/organizer fumbled it out
is too much. Of course there should be precautions to avoid the delays
we had this year - but
that is not exclusive to LGM's outside Europe either.

On 4 May 2017 at 13:26, Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmottard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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