What I think Jordi is saying is that he wants the US sponsors to
subsidize the cost of the overseas meetings. At least that's what it
works out to be....
Well, that's how I interpreted it also. What I found mind-boggling was
the idea that companies that volunteer to host one meeting would somehow
be willing to subsidize meetings held elsewhere. Last I knew it was
already quite difficult to find sponsors, and somehow this doesn't seem
like a good way to express our gratitude to them for their generosity.
I have also been of the impression that our hotel bills and meeting fees
were paying for most of the cost of our meetings, and that the sponsors
were mostly providing local logistical support and paying for incidental
costs - terminal room and wireless, t-shirts, subsidizing the social,
etc. And since the meeting fees are more-or-less constant and
independent of location, to me it seems like the US-only _attendees_ are
already partially subsidizing the cost of overseas meetings. Which
doesn't seem entirely "fair" but might be "reasonable" - unlike the idea
to penalize _sponsors_ of US meetings.
Keith
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