[Members] Re: Call for volunteers: Next X.org Developer's Conference, early 2007

Egbert Eich eich at suse.de
Tue Sep 19 00:46:15 PDT 2006


Leon Shiman writes:
 > on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:12:33 -0700 Alan Coopersmith wrote: 
 > >
 > >Egbert Eich wrote:
 > >> I assume that travelling to Hawaii involves traveling thru mainland US.
 > >
 > >It shouldn't - you can get direct flights to Hawaii from 
 > Asia/Australia/etc.
 > >
 > 
 > This would be welcomed by groups in Asia and the Pacific who have already 
 > expressed interest in more active involvement in X. We are late in 
 > responding to this demand.
 > 

It is definitely importand to include people
from this region. However this begs the question
why not move the event there.
There are people who would like to see such events
being moved out of the US to elude the harassment 
on visa application or entry.

Cheers,
	Egbert.



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