<div dir="ltr">I completely agree, and I do hope that somebody comes up with a European venue. Until one materializes, though, I'm going to continue working the Hong Kong prospect. Even if only ten of us show up, I think that it's important that we have some physical meeting called LGM in 2018. And, thanks to the GIMP, it would be very easy to edit the photographs to make the meeting look like a huge success.<div><div><br></div><div>I was going to offer to host in Saint Louis, but, with immigration controls tightening by the week, I believe that turnout would still be better in Hong Kong.</div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Øyvind Kolås <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pippin@gimp.org" target="_blank">pippin@gimp.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
>From: ale rimoldi <<a href="mailto:ale@graphicslab.org">ale@graphicslab.org</a>><br>
>Date: Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 10:39 PM<br>
>Subject: Re: [LGM] lgm 2018: a B. town as a B-plan?<br>
<span class="">>> Frank Trampe wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I'm working on Hong Kong.<br>
><br>
>wow<br>
><br>
>well, then, you folks can simply ignore my proposition.<br>
<br>
</span>After this years Latino GIMP Meeting, which Frank was one of the few<br>
attendees of - i think it is a bad idea to consider/attempt organizing<br>
LGM somewhere that is not close, cheap and convenient for European<br>
attendees. Due to level of attendance, and thus lack of organizational<br>
continuity - LGM almost stopped this year after a decade, attempting a<br>
non-european LGM right now would probably both alienate and discourage<br>
the traditional core tribe/attendees of LGM.<br>
<br>
/pippin<br>
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