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2008-09-09 , 11:22
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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
However, our restrictions HAVE been a huge problem for my international team. I wanted to host some conferences here but was told the US government makes it way too difficult.

Only real trouble I've had abroad has been in Paris and Zurich. In the former they just like to hassle Americans. In the latter, I think my collection of Nokia gadgetry set off 15 red alerts.

I travel lighter now.
America is bigger than the US. You can always host one outside the US. For example, the OpenBSD team regularly comes together in Canada for their hackathons.

Will there be press coverage about the summit?

I can think of 2 kinds of press coverage: community and regular. Community, maybe throughout the day or at the end of the day some folks from maemo.org or internettablettalk could (alone or collaborating) post on forum or frontpage about their experience / feelings, or something more in depth.

Regular journalists need to know about the summit. I've done my 2 ct in this regard contacting IT journalists I know and that was it regarding my inspiration however given this is in Germany I certainly wish a respected news outlet like derspiegel.de or heise.de writes an article about the summit.
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