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

[Jeff Waugh]

<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].

- Jeff

[1] which suggests absurdist humour, which would be fine.

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