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

Michael Still mikal at stillhq.com
Sat Oct 7 14:47:02 UTC 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




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