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Re: [Linux-aus] President's Report: August / September 2006



Jeff Waugh wrote:
<quote who="Paul TBBle Hampson">

On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 01:40:27PM +1000, Jonathan Oxer wrote:
I'd particularly like to hear from people who have decided not to go to
Sydney because they knew about Melbourne getting 2008: would it have
made any difference if you didn't know where the 2008 event was going to
be?
I hope we're not considering implementing attendance-maximisation through
obscurity?

... and why not? It makes total sense. I have been considering raising the possibility of *choosing* in advance but not publically *announcing* due to some of the issues we've come up against this year. It might be a funny joke to compare it to security with a pithy line, but it's not a perspective with much attachment to reality [1].

This has been done for previous conferences.

Mikal