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and this negates having Wikimania at all.
Thanks,
    GerardM

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:

> And I was trained in the army as a force protection officer to do the
> kind of risk assessment that relates to the probability of a terrorist
> attack. If as you say, individual participants have minimal contact
> with their environment, then there is no rational reason to have it in
> Egypt, as compared to a more accessible, less expensive, less
> dangerous country. After all, if the conference goers are not going to
> have contact with the surrounding environment it does not matter where
> the event is held and it should therefore be held at the cheapest and
> safest location.
>
> -Dan
> On Mar 4, 2008, at 3:04 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
>
> > I have been trained to do particular types of risk assessment. The
> > observation of the behaviour of people at Wikimanias past leads me to
> > conclude that the risk to individual participants is limited
> > relative to the
> > similar people being on their own in the same environment.
>
>
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