On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Yoav Nir <ynir(_at_)checkpoint(_dot_)com> wrote:
Adding US and Canada attendees (I counted last week, might have changed
slightly) you get to about 51% of the attendees.
When meetings are held in other parts of the world (like Taipei, Paris or
Prague) Americans still make up over 40% of the attendees.
Much as I prefer 4-hour flights to 12-hour flights, it minimizes the general
pain to hold meetings in America.
There's also the issue that finding good venues is considerably easier in
America than in either Europe or Asia
I find this logic circular. There is more participation from Americans
(people from US) so more meetings are held there and so more people
from US attend. So it becomes a self-perpetuating cycle. The IAOC /
IETF has notably tried to break free of this pattern by having
meetings in Asia (Taipei/Hiroshima/Beijing). But in that aspect 2012 -
2013 -2014 are disappointing years as meetings are being held only in
North America/Europe. Granted the problem of finding good venues is an
issue in some place but holding a meeting a year outside of NA/Europe
would be nice. Maybe try to hold interim meetings in these places (but
cost could be prohibitive for some of the participants - No easy
answers I guess).
-- Vinayak