> Dates were known from the start.

Funny I heard this complain already in Riga from an other American.

The point is that in we didn't know if we would get the event before we went to Riga, and we can hardly book things in advance. It seems the organizers in Madison knew it much earlier.

Furthermore YAPC::NA takes place only in one country with 300 million inhabitants.

(I heard that the only attempt to do it in Canada ended in a fiasco, because many Americans refused to come because they didn't have a passport.)

One single country facilitate things extremely ...

For example we need to found a registered society as a legal body. I suppose this overhead is not necessary in the US, you just use the last infrastructure.

Furthermore finding sponsors in a country full of dot-coms is easier from the start, you just ask the old sponsors.

And a a big national company in California can much better identify with Madison than lets say a Finnish big player with Frankfurt.

But less money means more work to bargain cheap infrastructure.

Anyway you could contact the Committee suggesting that the location of YAPC::EU 2013 will be decided much earlier, to make it easier for the organizers.

Cheers Rolf

In reply to Re: YAPC::EU 2012 by LanX
in thread YAPC::EU 2012 by JavaFan

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