Silly conference survey

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You DO realize that they hold it in the states every OTHER year, right...?  One year somewhere in the states and the next somewhere in Europe.



> On Sep 8, 2015, at 2:53 PM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 09/08/2015 09:27 PM, Lynn Fredricks wrote:
>>>> "I am not likely to attend any of the above locations, and
>>> I think a Central European location (e.g. Munich) might give
>>> the impression that RunRev actually cared about developers
>>> outside Britain and the US."
>>> 
>>> That was exact the same i was thinking when i saw the  the locations.
>> They are going to look at locations based on where their user base is, which
>> is why North America is going to figure quite prominently.
>> 
>> Oh yeah, I really like Vancouver, BC Canada :-)
>> 
>> Then there is easy access, price of flights and "comfort". That's why years
>> ago we had that one in Las Vegas. There are a lot of cheap flights to Las
>> Vegas from all parts of North America, and special package deals. I don't
>> have any impression of how much travel costs figure into attendance, but I
>> know with other specialty conferences, it does.
> 
> "easy access, price of flights and "comfort" "
> 
> I don't just suppose Las Vagas is easier to access by all those users in Germany than, say, Munich.
> 
> "comfort"    ; Ahh, Oh, Yes, I forgot: Munich is outside the comfort-zone because they speak a non-English language there.
> 
> "from all parts of North America" . . . I wonder about all the users in China, South and Central America, Europe and Africa.
> 
> You cannot even see how USA-and-her-poodle (Britain) centric you are being.
> 
> "price of flights"
> 
> Well, yeah, I suppose you are going to say that a ticket from Berlin to Las Vegas is cheaper than Berlin to Munich (why bother; just hop on
> a bus).
> 
> Instead of a silly, slanted survey about where to hold a conference, let's have a less-silly survey to see where LiveCode's installed
> base live . . . then, on the basis of that let's do some extrapolation from where those people live to the places where we could
> hold conferences which would be the most convenient to the most people.
> 
> Certainly, a cursory look at the Use-list postings and those in the Forum gives one an impression that a very large proportion
> of LiveCode users are NOT native speakers of English - so I wonder where they actually do live?
> 
> Richmond.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Lynn Fredricks
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