Re: [Debconf-discuss] Debconf13 in Vaumarcus, Switzerland bid
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 01:20:35PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 08:15:01AM +0700, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > On 11-12-27 at 12:02am, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 09:08:12AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> > > > > <http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/Switzerland/Bid>
> > > >
> > > > Le Camp looks beautiful :)
> > > >
> > > > Good to see a bid not in a city!
> > >
> > > + in the center of Europe (I mean the continent not the EU ;-)) so
> > > several people can use alternative transportation than plane.
> >
> > I believe Eurasia is a continent.
>
> So whom are we at war with today?
you're acting as if that ever changes, or as if that has ever changed.
> > And looking at european countries I believe the center is somewhere in
> > Denmark ig south Norway due to the length of Norway (often bent by mapping
> > tricks).
>
> There's a number of competing methods, but all results seem to form a
> meridian-wise line from Estonia to Ukraine, which is two big countries east
> of Denmark. The method that appeals to me most, taking the center of
> gravity of all land points rather than just extremes, points to eastern
> Lithuania.
>
> Which is a damn long way from Switzerland.
>
> On the other hand, center of the EU is currently in Germany.
Also, given the fact that more people live in Liechtenstein than in the
northern parts of Scandinavia[1], the center of gravity that considers
land mass only isn't very interesting.
> > ...but anyways I share your excitement. Plural - both about non-city
> > and ability to hith-hike there for europeans (and other eurasians).
>
> There's a different problem: prices of food, hotels, services, etc, seem to
> be consistently 7-8 times higher than around where I live. This means
> effective funds are divided by that much.
We've been in other countries where the cost of living was higher than
in other locations, and some of those have seen more visitors than, say,
the one in Argentina, where the cost of living is comparatively low. I
don't think such considerations should be of the highest importance on
deciding a location.
Then again, it's not really my call, so whatever :-)
[1] I have no numbers to base this statement on, but given the fact that
northern scandinavia is fairly uninhabited, I'm sure it's possible
to come up with some definition of 'the northern parts of
Scandinavia' that has an area larger than that of Liechtenstein and
for which that statement is true ;-)
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