D Conference 2007

[John Reimer]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:19:56 -0800, Thomas Kuehne <thomas-dloop at kuehne.cn>  
wrote:

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> John Reimer schrieb am 2006-11-17:
>> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:50:50 -0800, Bill Baxter
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>> It is unfortunate, though, that more Europeans couldn't be involved in
>> such a Conference.  It's clearly evident that some of the most  
>> influential
>> D community members are from overseas.
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> I'd love to come to the Westcoast, but as other have hinted this would
> most likely require somewhere around US$ 2000-3000 for most Europeans.
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Ouch!  That's expensive!  It's no where near that costly to fly from here  
to Europe.  My Trip to Manchester, England this month cost me just over  
$1080 Canadian (about $950 US) return and that wasn't even an  
exceptionally competitive price (although the only available at the  
time).  I admit that its certainly cheaper making the trip from here to  
there.  That does seem to favour the idea of a European convention  
someday.  I certainly wouldn't mind.  I'm starting to like any excuse for  
a little holiday. :)


> Co-hosting somewhere in Europe should enable quite few more to take part
> in this gathering. Yes renting a second place and providing the video
> infrastructure is no replacement for a person-to-person meeting.
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> Thomas
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An interesting idea.  By "Co-hosting" do you mean a realtime  
video-conference of sorts? Or do you just mean just hosting another  
conference in Europe on another occasion?

-JJR