Funny I heard this complain already in Riga from an other American.
"An other American"? Are you implying I'm an American? ;-)
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.
Bollocks.

I've been to both YAPC::NA 2001 in Montreal, and YAPC::NA 2005 in Toronto, and both were a success and did not suffer from "many Americans refusing to come because they did not have a passport". In 2001 and 2005, Americans did not need a passport to enter Canada, or to return home -- that only became an issue in 2009.

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.
AFAIK, YAPC::NA always uses TPF for that, as formally, TPF organizes YAPC::NA (and that's why the profits of its auction always went to TPF).
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.

You're not going to ask Shadowcat, Booking.com, or Net-A-Porter this year, because they're too focussed on Letland? ;-)
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.
Oh, I've been prodding several members for some time about that.

In reply to Re^2: YAPC::EU 2012 by JavaFan
in thread YAPC::EU 2012 by JavaFan

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