On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 12:11:46PM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > > As Mako mentioned, Brazil has been extremely active in the Free Software > > movement but very unrepresented at the past Debian conferences. The Real > > (Brazilian currency) is weak compared to USD and EUR which makes coming to > > Brazil from these places affordable but going from Brazil to Europe or North > > America extremely difficult. > > There already is a good deal of planning to host the conference some days > > before or after the Fórum Internacional de Software Livre (International > > Free Software Forum)[1], so that Debian developers can join us in this event as > > well. > Last FISL was from Thu 5 to Sat 7 June 2003, so I guess it will happen > again from Thu 3 to Sat 5 June 2004. > If FISL occurs during the second week in July 2004 and Debconf4 during > the following week, it will coincide with the school holidays in > Australia and Europe and (I guess) more people will start making plans > to go to FISL2004 and Debconf4. From what I can see, plane tickets in July are also correspondingly more expensive, since this is a popular travel time; since Brazil is a long flight from everywhere :), I think this is a factor that also needs to be considered. > IMO, it will be more effective to help DDs from other countries in > America (America != US) like Argentina, Colombia, Chile, etc. With the > same amount of money, you could bring more DDs from neighboring > countries to Porto Alegre than from Europe, Canada or Australia. Well, there aren't that many DDs in South America /at all/ outside of Brazil; I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that they could all get travel assistance if they wanted, while still providing financial aid to others outside of South America. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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