[LGM] LGM 2020 in Riyadh

[Michael Schumacher]

On May 1, 2018 8:24:25 PM GMT+02:00, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 9:12 PM, Frank Trampe wrote:
>
>> Or perhaps you understood that it was a joke but were concerned about
>> offending the Saudi royal family? I know that LGM may not have the
>activist
>> bent that it once had, but if gentle mockery of a repressive
>government
>> becomes out of bounds, we've really lost our character.
>>
>
>I was beginning to wonder if I should attend LGM in '19 and whether the
>conference orgs are finally done with irrelevant topics. Thank you for
>reminding me why I shouldn't bother.

When I glimpsed the mail subject on someone else's phone just before we boarded our flight from Sevilla, I was hoping for a genuine offer and an interesting discussion about why and how our reply would be a "thanks, but no thanks".

It's not like we didn't have similar discussions about other countries for similar reasons in the past.

Finding out that it was a mere joke amost made me headdesk on the plane, if only that would not disturb the person sitting in front. 

If the intention was to make sure that mail exchange on this list continues way past LGM, then most likely mission accomplished, but maybe not about the topics intended.

Unless they would be the CoC and its application, I guess.


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Regards,
Michael