[Foundation-l] [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2008 will happen in Alexandria, Egypt

[Andrew Gray]

On 11/10/2007, Delirium <delirium at 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...)

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk