Christine Louise Beems wrote:
Here's an idea on conferences to add to the mix:
Face-to-face networking and socializing is essential for both community
and business development, so how about having an annual face-to-face
'global' conference with multiple (regional) venues, all held on the
same date(s). This would give folks the option of staying closer to home
-or- traveling to a distant location, being somewhat able to accomplish
the same networking/socializing purpose at any location...?
Indeed having multiple venues would be be a great thing, but might be
hard to organize. It would surely mean a larger budget and I doubt, that
our sponsors would be willing to donate for e.g. five different
locations at the same time. You also need several teams, usually
volunteers, who can manage having free bandwidth on a specific time
frame. There are also some effects to consider that result from bank
holidays and local vacation seasons. The OOoCon 2008 in Beijing got for
example postponed, because the first dates we have been choosing were
during German spring school holidays, which would have meant very poor
attendance of Sun engineers.
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Best regards,
Peter
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