Re: Lua Workshop 2012 in Toulouse, France

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>]

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Robert Raschke <rtrlists@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Valerio Schiavoni
> <valerio.schiavoni@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com>
>>
>> In academic communities, conferences are often held in different part of
>> the world, without anyone
>> complaining much or without mentioning the word "split".
>> Last year we got continental Europe. This year will be US.
>> Honestly I don't see such a big deal.

> The Erlang community has mini conferences (called Erlang Factories) all over
> the world as well as the main yearly Sweden hosted User Conference. I see no
> split issues there at all. It's a really nice way to diversify
> communication.

>>> It is not a very good thing to split the community this badly though, I
>>> think.

The only reason why I say "split" is the mutually exclusive schedule —
it is hard to visit both workshops.

Alexander.