On 1/24/07, Martin Bligh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's not just the cost of travel by any means - the extra travel time and jetlag involved is huge - having everybody sleep through a conference is distinctly less productive. One of the advantages of the EST timezone locations is that it's at least reasonably central to most of the players involved. Obviously, wherever we hold it, some people get screwed ... the question is what screws the fewest people the least. Personally, I'd prefer PST for purely selfish reasons, but ... ;-)
--- Hmm - Sounds like it needs to go to Halifax! [I was going to suggest Reykjavik, but was surprised to see it was in the same time zone as the UK.] I wonder what the geographic center of the kernel community is. Somebody with boundless energy could harvest the mail headers from LKML, remove duplicates, and figure out the temporal center from the timezone information in the headers, but I don't know an easy way to get to air-mile distances... scott - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
