On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 4:33 AM, WereSpielChequers <
werespielchequers(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I suggest that instead we make the rotation explicit
by distance, 4000
miles from the preceding venue, 3,000 miles from the one before that, 2,000
from the one three years prior and 1000 from the one four years earlier.
I like this idea, although it would be even better if some notion of
"airfare expense" could be baked in as well. The reason why Mexico is not
included along with Canada and the US is (I assume, I could be wrong)
because a number of attendees this past year complained that airfare to
Mexico was much more expensive than airfare to the US or Europe. Like it
or not, (inexpensive) air travel seems to be arranged around global hubs;
if you are flying to Mexico City from North Africa or India your best
flight may take you via stops in Europe and the US. It was suggested that
(somewhat paradoxically) hosting conferences in US/Europe then allowed
*more* of the global south to attend by eliminating punishing airfare to
the locale.
I'm not really interested in debating this point, since it wasn't me who
raised it originally in the context of Wikimania 2015 and I have no first
hand experience. But I would love to hear more about the issue from those
who live outside the main air travel corridors (if only to refute the
suggestion, which again I'm relaying second-hand).
It also seems like a four-year rotation might make some folks happier:
US/Canada, "the rest of the world", Europe, "the rest of the world".
--scott
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