<div dir="ltr">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.<div> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Jehan Pagès <<a href="mailto:jehan.marmottard@gmail.com" target="_blank">jehan.marmottard@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi, On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 3:29 PM, Simon Budig <<a href="mailto:simon@budig.de">simon@budig.de</a>> wrote: > Hi all. > > Frank Trampe (<a href="mailto:frank.trampe@gmail.com">frank.trampe@gmail.com</a>) 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 > -- > <a href="mailto:simon@budig.de">simon@budig.de</a> <a href="http://simon.budig.de/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://simon.budig.de/</a> > _______________________________________________ > Libre-graphics-meeting mailing list > <a href="mailto:Libre-graphics-meeting@lists.freedesktop.org">Libre-graphics-meeting@lists.freedesktop.org</a> > <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libre-graphics-meeting" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libre-graphics-meeting</a> -- ZeMarmot open animation film <a href="http://film.zemarmot.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://film.zemarmot.net</a> Patreon: <a href="https://patreon.com/zemarmot" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://patreon.com/zemarmot</a> Tipeee: <a href="https://www.tipeee.com/zemarmot" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.tipeee.com/zemarmot</a> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">_______________________________________________ Libre-graphics-meeting mailing list <a href="mailto:Libre-graphics-meeting@lists.freedesktop.org">Libre-graphics-meeting@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libre-graphics-meeting" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libre-graphics-meeting</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> </div>