<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>All conferences have been held in Europe so far. While Europe has "the most active pirates," there are still parties in the rest of the world. It is therefore seen as important to have a non-European conference so that other parties are acknowledged. The last conference was meant to take place outside Europe, but because there were no serious applications (Tunisia's was the only application not in Europe, and it was not well thought out) it was held in Prague.</div><div><br></div><div>It would make PPI even more unpopular with non-European parties if the conference was not held somewhere else.</div><br><div><div>On 06/12/2012, at 9:40 AM, Anton Nordenfur wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p dir="ltr">Why is it that the GA is being planned outside of Europe? Europe has the most active pirates. What am I missing? </p><p dir="ltr">A </p> <div class="gmail_quote">On 5 Dec 2012 23:11, <<a href="mailto:marco.confalonieri@email.it">marco.confalonieri@email.it</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I think that you should probably look for the numbers of GA2012 for an approx. idea.<br> <br> Marco Confalonieri<br> Mail inviata da un BlackBerry refrattario alla Netiquette :-/<br> <br> -----Original Message-----<br> From: john dickinson <<a href="mailto:jrdickinson@yahoo.com">jrdickinson@yahoo.com</a>><br> Sender: <a href="mailto:pp.international.general-bounces@lists.pirateweb.net">pp.international.general-bounces@lists.pirateweb.net</a><br> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 14:04:32<br> To: <a href="mailto:me@travismccrea.com">me@travismccrea.com</a><<a href="mailto:me@travismccrea.com">me@travismccrea.com</a>>; Pirate Parties International -- General Talk<<a href="mailto:pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net">pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net</a>><br> Reply-To: john dickinson <<a href="mailto:jrdickinson@yahoo.com">jrdickinson@yahoo.com</a>>,<br> Pirate Parties International -- General Talk<br> <<a href="mailto:pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net">pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net</a>><br> Subject: Re: [pp.int.general] PPI GA 2013 - Call for Hosts<br> <br> ____________________________________________________<br> Pirate Parties International - General Talk<br> <a href="mailto:pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net">pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net</a><br> <a href="http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general" target="_blank">http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general</a><br> <br> <br> ____________________________________________________<br> Pirate Parties International - General Talk<br> <a href="mailto:pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net">pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net</a><br> <a href="http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general" target="_blank">http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general</a><br> </blockquote></div> ____________________________________________________<br>Pirate Parties International - General Talk<br><a href="mailto:pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net">pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net</a><br>http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>