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"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbell net> wrote in message
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> Scott Hill wrote:
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> > I just think that 'a USA location' has been chosen merely for the
fact
> > that the people that suggested having a convention happen to live in
> > America...
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> There was a UK convention a couple of years ago
There was ? Wish I'd known about it at the time (or maybe I did and it
just slipped through the gaps in my memory)...
> and I don't recall anyone
> suggesting an alternate location at that time. Why should Americans act
> any differently ?
>
Er, no reason, but why should the past affect what's done in the future
?
Actually, I was mostly throwing the suggestion into the pot to see if it
would float or sink - it just seemed to me that, if we were to have one
single convention, somewhere neutral would be better.
--
Scott Hill.
Software Engineer.
E-Mail : sco### [at] innocentcom
Pandora's Box : http://www.pandora-software.com
*Everything in this message/post is purely IMHO and no-one-else's*
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"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote :
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> There was a UK convention a couple of years ago and I don't recall anyone
> suggesting an alternate location at that time. Why should Americans act
> any differently ?
Plus the fact that we -did- ask (or leave open the question) for
alternate locations and no one stepped forward to offer themselves as
organizer, liaison or victim. Since, so far, only two people have
volunteered, and they are both in the USA, it might have to be here by
default.
Whines by trolls notwithstanding.
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What happened to the multi-location net-conferencing idea? From a few "hub"
places that is.
Bob H.
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"Bob H." <omn### [at] msncom> wrote in message
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> What happened to the multi-location net-conferencing idea? From a few
"hub"
> places that is.
That still makes sense to me but the manpower to achieve it has not yet
appeared.
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I would be interested
Bill DeWitt wrote:
> "GrimDude" <Gri### [at] nwarkcom> wrote :
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> > Well, I think it's time to post cross-forum and get responses for a
> > head-count.
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> OK, so the idea is for a 2002 convention either in Orlando Florida USA
> or Atlanta Georgia USA or other location to be agreed upon in the USA.
>
> Who's up for it?
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Bryan Valencia
Software Development Engineer
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"Bill DeWitt" <bde### [at] cflrrcom> wrote in message
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> "Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote :
> >
> > There was a UK convention a couple of years ago and I don't recall
anyone
> > suggesting an alternate location at that time. Why should Americans act
> > any differently ?
>
> Plus the fact that we -did- ask (or leave open the question) for
> alternate locations and no one stepped forward to offer themselves as
> organizer, liaison or victim. Since, so far, only two people have
> volunteered, and they are both in the USA, it might have to be here by
> default.
>
1) I believe the idea of cross-posting it to .general was to get other
(i.e. those that don't frequent .off-topic) peoples opinions. Instead
someone merely posted their opinion of where it should be held and said
"Who's coming ?".
2) There were plenty of suggestions of doing something outside America,
but someone ignored those suggestions and just posted their opinion of where
it should be held and said "Who's coming ?".
That doesn't sound like 'focusing all discussion', that sounds like
someone trying to force their views onto everyone else.
--
Scott Hill.
Software Engineer.
E-Mail : sco### [at] innocentcom
Pandora's Box : http://www.pandora-software.com
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Scott Hill wrote:
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> "Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
> news:3B1B970D.DFFF72F1@pacbell.net...
> >
> >
> > Scott Hill wrote:
> >
> > > I just think that 'a USA location' has been chosen merely for the
> fact
> > > that the people that suggested having a convention happen to live in
> > > America...
> >
> > There was a UK convention a couple of years ago
>
> There was ? Wish I'd known about it at the time (or maybe I did and it
> just slipped through the gaps in my memory)...
It was discussed on c.g.r.r. at about the same time the "you know you have
been raytracing too long" thread was active.
> Actually, I was mostly throwing the suggestion into the pot to see if it
> would float or sink - it just seemed to me that, if we were to have one
> single convention, somewhere neutral would be better.
I think for most US residents, and there are many, it is simply not
cost effective to travel out of the country. Even the thought of
travelling all the way across N. America to Florida seems a little
intimidating to me. It's 3500+ mi. (that's like a million kilometers)
from where I live to where Bill lives for example.
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Ken Tyler
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It'd be a good idea to start seperate threads for the various
regions/countries that want to hold a convention, that way things
won't get so muddeled up.
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:ste### [at] zeroppsuklinuxnet
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"Steve" <ste### [at] zeroppsuklinuxnet> wrote in message
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> It'd be a good idea to start seperate threads for the various
> regions/countries that want to hold a convention, that way things
> won't get so muddeled up.
Well, it's not like there is a clamor.
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"Bob H." wrote:
> >Great idea. The host of POV-Ray Chat on AOL has been bringing up the idea
> >of a get-together at his place northwest of Atlanta. Started talking of it
> >a year or so ago. Would be maybe three people going if so :-) He was just
> >there in FL, goes there sometimes.
Has it really been a year since we started talking about POV-Stock? The idea was
to get POV-user/musicians together in my little town here in NW Georgia for a
couple of days of music and code swapping. But if there is a more organized
event in the works, in either ATL or MCO, I would consider going there too.
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