Re: ideas for ConTeXt meetings

["Jörg Hagmann" <joerg.hagmann@unibas.ch>]

Something else to consider is the date. Quite a few of us work in 
academia, and the fall term has recently been advanced, at least at many 
European universities, to just about when the ConTeXt meetings are being 
held.

Of course you can't please everybody -- just a suggestion.

Cheers, Jörg

On 10/26/10 11:46 AM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 October 2010 09:31:25 Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>>
>> If we meet less far off than Brejlov or Porquerolles,
>
> Far from where?
> Canada or South Africa, just to name a few places from which participants
> came...
>
> In organizing an international meeting, it is always a delicate balance in
> choosing a site that is reasonably accessible, reasonably affordable,
> reasonably attractive and available at a reasonable date. A meeting also needs
> to be organized which implies quite a lot of (volonteer) work from a small
> group of people. This means that the locale also depends on the availablity of
> such volonteers.
>
> It is also sane that the meeting be held in different regions, and,
> unfortunately, not all meetings will be practical (or possible) for everyone.
> We need to work together to find ways to make the meetings work for a maximum
> number of participants in the best way possible.
>
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