On 11/10/2007, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
True, but some places are less expensive for a greater number of people than others are. If we were to order cities by some vague criterion of "number of people who can get there for under US$500, plus number of people who can get there for under US$1000, weighted by some unspecified amount", my guess based on consolidator spot-checking is that, from least to most expensive, the four Wikimania cities would be ordered: Frankfurt, Boston, Taipei, Alexandria. I.e., we're picking somewhere less accessible every year!
I'm surprised at the latter two - my gut instinct is that the accessibility from Europe for Alexandria should outweigh the accessibility bonus for the Far Eastern users going to Taiwan. Was it close?
(This is probably me systematically underestimating our usership figures, again...)