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Originally Posted by Jaffa View Post
Personally, whether I'd travel would pretty much entirely depend on cost (and so location in the US).

Whether Nokia should pay for the summit to be in the US one year should be a purely numbers based decision based on sales volumes and likely attendee base.

Of course, there's nothing stopping someone who wants a US-based Maemo event to organise a spin-off of the "official" Maemo summit. I'm sure some money could go to that for banners etc. It'd be a US community get together; with the possibility.

Perhaps next year (and this is only the second summit, remember), if it's again Europe based there'll be enough experience & infrastructure to do live feeds to a smaller US-based satellite get together.

However, there'd have to be the interest and, AIUI, the location within the US can cause as many problems for people there as getting to the US for everyone here.
Thanks Jaffa, basically my words. Visa and travel expenses are a problem for many people. Solution: think of an event for those that won't have such problem, mainly US and Canadian folks.

The Maemo Summit is not the only reference of a community gathering we have. Remember the Danish Weekend or LinuxTag'08. Finding the appropriate formula we can have a gathering somewhere in North America, most likely with some budget and help. It's a matter to see how this event would fit in the Harmattan phase.

The important questions are: where, connected to which event (if any) and who volunteers to organize it.

MaemOmaha 2010 anyone?
 

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