Re: 3rd Language Creation Conference dates & LCS membership now open

I think the next LCC should be in Pittsburgh. The Convention center downtown
is one of the most beautiful buildings there is and would be amazing for
such an event.

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Sai Emrys <saizai@...> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 6:31 AM, <deinx nxtxr> <deinx.nxtxr@...>
> wrote:
> > I guess I'm holding out until they have one in Nashville,
> > Atlanta, Cincinnati or Louisville where the trip is about 4 hours or
> less.
>
> We decide how/where to hold 'em on two very simple points:
>
> 1. Do we have someone on the ground there we can trust to run it?
>
> 2. How many (new and continuing) people can viably reach it?
>
> #1 is *far* more important, practically speaking, because it's a far
> more stringent requirement. There simply aren't all that many people
> willing and able to do the backend organization that's needed to pull
> it off, and have the local resources to accomplish it.
>
> We don't currently have anyone in that area, and therefore no plan to
> hold an LCC there. If you are interested in organizing something,
> please do let us know.
>
> Current tentative long-term plans are only as far as having LCC4 in
> Saarbrücken, Germany in 2010, with Henrik Theiling. We hope that'll be
> a location that is viable at least for most people in Europe.
>
> In an ideal world, we'd be able to just pick a city and just have
> everything magically show up because we can pay third parties to
> organize, but we don't have the budget to make that happen any time
> soon.
>
> - Sai
>

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