Re: [Diversity] Concerns about Singapore

Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> Mon, 11 April 2016 01:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Diversity] Concerns about Singapore
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On 4/10/2016 4:40 PM, Vinayak Hegde wrote:
>> We already have a repertoire of acceptable venues.  IMO, we therefore can
>> >afford to be quite cavalier about rejecting new venues.
> I am not so sure about being cavalier about rejecting new venues. Especially
> since the US internet population is now dwarfed by other countries and
> regions like
> LATAM, China and India. The meeting venues should reflect that atleast fairly
> (if not in representative fashion).



Point taken.  I was, perhaps, being a bit too cavalier about our being 
cavalier...

I'll suggest a refinement:  For the regions that we've been visiting 
regularly over the years, we already have a repertoire of acceptable 
venues.  For these, we can readily reject a new venue, if there is 
significant community objection to going there.  (That's what I /meant/ 
about being cavalier.)

When the goal is to visit a new region and/or make a new region part of 
the regular circuit, choices are more complicated and need to be made 
more cautiously.

FWIW, I think that early disclosure of candidate cities is useful in 
both cases.

d/

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   Dave Crocker
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