Silly conference survey

[Kaveh Bazargan]

Cheap accommodation and travel is key I believe. And I hope they call a
halt to the two-tier hotel tradition. I think everyone will be happier in
one reasonably priced hotel. Those who really want to can book alternative
accommodation.

Las Vegas is good choice for reasons given. But I was very peed off
when LiveCode cancelled a Las Vegas conf at very short notice. I had plans
to go to 3 other shows and confs on the back of that...

On 8 September 2015 at 20:26, PystCat <pystcat at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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