Mark Williamson wrote:
Even if I had a ticket though, I'm not sure I'd come.
I want you to come. GerardM will come, and board members, and I. A meeting face to face would make subsequent e-mail communication much more efficient. Don't ask me how that works, but it does, in my experience. By suggesting the foundation could pay your air ticket, I wanted to remove one excuse for you to stay home. You seem already to have a lot of time at your hands.
The only irony I can find is that you seem to know everything about languages, for which you are rightly admired and very welcome in the Wikipedia community, but very little about communication between people.