[pp.int.general] The conference - what went wrong; how can we do better?

[W Tovey]

I'd suggest holding the next conference in the Americas. I know this
will likely be opposed by many, but the next one will hopefully focus on
tidying up the statutes and appointing new members - if properly
organised, remote participation should be enough.

-Will

On 21/04/2010 17:58, Nicolas Sahlqvist wrote:
> I tend to think that the form of PPI will not make it more or less
> international, it is rather the way we push for PPI to become more
> international and that is a challenge considering most PP's are located
> within Europe. Any ideas how we make PP's more popular in Latin America,
> Asia, Africa and Caribbean?
>
>
> - Nicolas
>   PPI
>
>
> 2010/4/21 Błażej Kaczorowski <blazej.kaczorowski at gmail.com>
>
>> If we want PPI really international now European we need to change it
>> to federation - now it is organization.
>>
>> Blazej
>> PP Poland
>>
>> On 21 April 2010 17:54, Justus Ršoemeth <squig at dfpx.de> wrote:
>>> I didn't say it was perfect in Brussels. I just tried to point out that
>> by
>>> pushing it towards the Americas you are pulling it away from Oceania. May
>> be
>>> easier to keep it at local working times and just expect the other people
>> to
>>> get up earlier or stay up longer. Trying to make it best for the Americas
>>> and Europe is counterproductive in my opinion.
>>>
>>> On 21.04.10 17:31, Andrew Norton wrote:
>>>>
> On 4/21/2010 11:08 AM, Justus R?oemeth wrote:
>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> But those times are really unfortunate for remote participation of
> >>>>> places like NZ and AUS.
> >>>>> I don't think we'll be able to find a solution here that works for
> >>>>> everyone perfectly.
> >>>>>
>
> The current times were pretty exclusionary as well. at GMT+10, you were
> looking at starting around 6pm(9am) and ending at what, 3am (7pm)? not
> THAT bad, but not that great either.
>
>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 21.04.10 14:57, Andrew Norton wrote:
> >>>>> On 4/21/2010 3:49 AM, Wolfgang Preiss wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> As it comes to the other points you mentioned, there is
> hardly I can
> >>>>>>>> say, I only can express an opinion there. As for time
> planning, the
> >>>>>>>> conference is being planned as it fits best local time. Although
> >> this
> >>>>>>>> means for the remote deligates to sit at 3am or earlier at the
> >>>>>>>> computer,
> >>>>>>>> it is much easier to handle for them to do so, than for the
> larger
> >>>>>>>> number of deligates at the conference to adapt to the time
> wishes of
> >>>>>>>> the
> >>>>>>>> remote deligates. After all these can benefit participating from
> >> their
> >>>>>>>> homes. After the majority of PPI members is located in europe
> that
> >> is
> >>>>>>>> a
> >>>>>>>> burden for the deligates in other time zones to carry. Sorry :-)
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'm not talking about a major shift, like starting at 4pm and going
> >>>>> until 2am local, I'm talking about maybe starting at 12 noon,
> finishing
> >>>>> at 7/8. 3 hours can make a fair bit of difference. Then the social
> >> stuff
> >>>>> can be done in the AM (and still at night). now a meeting held
> in the
> >>>>> Americas would benefit from an early start, say 8-9am, so that
> its not
> >>>>> too late for European remotes.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Regards
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Wolfgang
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
>
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