On 31 March 2014 12:02, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
Video conferencing is ok-ish.. at best. It does not give you the
opportunity that face to face communications gives you. It does not allow
you to get through the fog of misunderstanding, Really, when the right
people go for the right reasons, it pays its dividents.
Cost is only one criteria to measure things by. What would you consider as
relevant for more people to go ?
Thanks,
Gerard
Yes absolute cost is only one measure, but should remain a primary one
when judging if the charitable funds of our movement are being spent
wisely.
Another consideration is past concern from smaller chapters that this
meeting was being overwhelmed with the viewpoint of the larger and
better funded chapters that found it easiest to travel to Berlin, or
pay employees to attend. This is probably a reason why the German
chapter, compared to the UK chapter, is sending a relatively modest
number of people to represent their chapter at the conference they are
actually hosting.
Fae
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