On 31 March 2014 12:02, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, Video conferencing is ok-ish.. at best. It does not give you the opportunity that face to face communications gives you. It does not allow you to get through the fog of misunderstanding, Really, when the right people go for the right reasons, it pays its dividents.
Cost is only one criteria to measure things by. What would you consider as relevant for more people to go ? Thanks, Gerard
Yes absolute cost is only one measure, but should remain a primary one when judging if the charitable funds of our movement are being spent wisely.
Another consideration is past concern from smaller chapters that this meeting was being overwhelmed with the viewpoint of the larger and better funded chapters that found it easiest to travel to Berlin, or pay employees to attend. This is probably a reason why the German chapter, compared to the UK chapter, is sending a relatively modest number of people to represent their chapter at the conference they are actually hosting.
Fae