Re: [libreoffice-marketing] call for location 2012

Hi Leif,

Leif Lodahl wrote on 2011-08-17 17:48:

> The Paris conference is in October and honestly, can we make a decision
> before that? If not, lets leave it for the moment.

yes and no. I agree that we can spend our time with lots of other 
important things. However, keep in mind that if we wait until the Paris 
conference is over, first the next year's team misses the opportunity to 
collaborate with this year's team, plus the preparation time for the 
teams gets shorter day by day, not to forget the Christmas vacations.

I'm not saying we need to announce the next year's venue at Paris, but I 
would like to at least start the process.

> My suggestion is that we raise the question for discussion: Should the
> conference always be in Europe or should we circulate it. Or should we
> perhaps have a main conference circulating and separate "local" conferences
> on each continent. Many thoughts could come around, but we can't make a
> final decision before Paris. In the future it could be a good idea to
> announce next years revenue on this years conference but not this year.

That's indeed a tough question. I recall it from OpenOffice.org times as 
well. IMHO Louis had the proposal of having a fixed set of countries or 
even cities, amongst several continents, organizing the conference, so 
people can plan and every continent has a chance.

However, looking at last year's proposals, it became harder and harder 
to find a well balanced proposal, with financial support and the like, 
plus reachability by the target audience.

There has also been the proposal of hosting a "RegiCon", a regional 
conference, besides the main conference.

These are indeed proposals we can look into. First, however, I would 
like to see who would like to apply at all. If we only get proposals 
from, let's say Europe and the US, we don't need to think about hosting 
a conference in Asia, because no organizer is there....

But, indeed, it's a tough question, I totally agree, and I really would 
like to give everyone a fair chance of participating at our conference, 
which is Europe-centric at the moment.

Florian

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