[Members] Re: Call for volunteers: Next X.org Developer's Conference, early 2007

[Egbert Eich]

I assume that travelling to Hawaii involves traveling thru mainland US.
That means: no matter from where you come from outside North America
you won't win anything. Instead it would mean a painfully long trip for
everybody outside the US.

Egbert.

Paul Swart writes:
 > How about Hawaii? ... Really!
 > 
 > Advantages:
 > * One place your spouses will not mind tagging along for some relaXing. So
 > you can make it a vacation. You'll get some attendees just from that factor
 > alone.
 > * You may get more attendees from the Far East region
 > * I have good contacts at both the University of Hawaii and BYU Hawaii where
 > the event can be hosted, unless you want to do it at a hotel.
 > * Air fares from the U.S. are very reasonable in the early part of the year
 > (about $300 for a round trip from the West Coast).
 > * Hotels in Waikiki are cheap, especially that time of the year.
 > * There is an annual open source software conference at the Honolulu
 > Convention Center every January. TPOSSCON (Trans-Pacific Open Source
 > Software Conference). We could tie the developer conference into that and
 > get some speaking opportunities out of it for some of our developers. Check
 > the speaker schedule from the 2006 event at
 > http://www.pfosscon.org/archive/2006
 > 
 > Just thought I'd throw it into the mix of ideas.
 > 
 > Paul Swart
 > StarNet
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > On 9/12/06 2:39 PM, "Alan Coopersmith" <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
 > 
 > > Alex Deucher wrote:
 > >> How about the east coast maybe DC or Boston? Miami?
 > > 
 > > We already have DDC in Ottawa for the North American East Coast X gathering.
 > > The X conference was in Boston when HP was willing to host it - the location
 > > in California is simply because that's where the Sun facility is we have to
 > > host it in.
 > 
 > 
 > 
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