Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader wrote:you were not invited because the meeting was in Europe and airfare would have been quite expensive for Debian to pay.I'm betting you could get from Texas to Spain for around $300 or less. Debian certainly has the budget for that.
A three-week advance purchase round-trip airfare from Houston to Madrid is $616 (on Air France or Continental and Iberia) in economy class, according to Orbitz. (I didn't bother with searching from other airports in Texas, but I can't imagine the difference would be more than +/- 10%.)
Further, I'm not sure it's a good use of project funds for jet-setting developers around the world for meetings when we have things like IRC and the telephone available. One DebConf and we'd be tapped out...
Chris -- Chris Lawrence <lawrencc@debian.org> - http://blog.lordsutch.com/