Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>]

Em Qui, 2007-01-25 às 12:51 -0800, David Miller escreveu:
> From: Dirk Hohndel <dirk.hohndel@intel.com>
> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:22:54 -0800
> 

> It's too damn repetitive to go to the same location over and over.
> Why do you think LCA tries to go to a different city every year and
> even let "foreigners" run the show last year in New Zealand? :-)
> Nobody want to go to the same place twice if they have to travel
> at all.
> 
> As an added bonus, we can hand off the conference organizing to
> different folks in the local location each year.  That will also add
> some new life and excitement to kernel summit, have different people
> chair, organize, and run the conference.  If you use the same people,
> just like using the same venue, the thing gets stale, and the kernel
> summit is extremely stale at the moment.
> 
> That's what I'm against, going to the same location over and over.  It
> makes the event more like a chore than something to look forward to
> and enjoy.
If the conference would be hold in Brazil, I may help having local
support. 

The company I work hold last year an ETSI internal meeting about IMS in
Brasília. It were a very interesting experience. The meeting were closed
to ETSI members and some people invited. After the meeting, there were
two days of an open event.

It should be noticed that about 99.9% of the attendants came from
Europe, with travelling costs covered by their companies. The Brazilian
company organized the event and covered some local costs (like
lunch/dinner/cocktail/event hostage).

Probably, the major companies with worldwide presence will cover
travelling costs, whatever place KS would be hold, since the local
offices of those companies will have interests on holding the
conference.

Just my $2 cents.

Cheers,
Mauro.