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Re: [81attendees] are we getting complacent? Good job!

"Carlos M. Martinez" <carlos@lacnic.net> Mon, 01 August 2011 17:08 UTC

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I think the geographical discussion is kind of missing the point.

- The venue was great
- The city was awesome
- Organization & logistics were also great

- Flying to Quebec was reasonable. Maybe my perception is skewed, but I 
didn't find the connections to QC unnaceptable. There are flights every 
1 hr or so from YUL, and YUL has connections to almost everywhere in the 
world. I don´t find flying three legs that bad as many people do.

Again, I hardly ever travel less than two legs to get anywhere, so 
flying three is not bad. I have had to do much, much worse than that for 
other less friendly destinations.

My kudoz to the local hosts as well as the organization in general.

Carlos

On 8/1/11 2:00 PM, Benson Schliesser wrote:
> If this is how we're going to think about it, then...
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_center_of_the_United_States
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_midpoint_of_Europe
>
> Asia is a bit more complicated.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Asia
>
> Per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Asia - "There are several places
> that claim to be the geographic center of Asia, for example Kyzyl, the
> capital of Tuva  in the Russian Federation, and a village 200 miles (320 km)
> north of Ürümqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region of China."
>
> :)
>
> Cheers,
> -Benson
>
>
>
> On 8/1/11 11:40 AM, "Joe Touch"<touch@isi.edu>  wrote:
>
>>
>> On 8/1/2011 8:41 AM, John R. Levine wrote:
>>>>> Quebec is within driving distance of about 1/4 of the population in
>>>>> North
>>>>> America. Vancouver isn't.
>> NA = 530M
>>
>> Canada - Quebec province = 26M
>> Eastern US states within dist = (all in millions)
>> CT = 3.5
>> ME = 1.3
>> MA = 6.4
>> NH = 1.3
>> NY = 19
>> RI = 1
>> VT = 0.6
>>
>> Some major cities out of dist:
>> NYC (8hrs) = 8
>> Boston (6 hrs) = 4
>>
>> i.e., 21.1M possibly within dist
>>
>> That's a total of 47.1M out of 530M
>>
>> Not even 10%, and that includes a LOT of places nobody would ever drive
>> from.
>>
>> Agreed that Vancouver is even less useful for driving (under 7M), but
>> how many attendees drove (not just from nearby airports)?
>>
>> Joe
>>
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