Looking at this from my geographic vantage, any place I go is going to be a
long flight if it's not just going to be the same people I could see
anyways. So I would rather have the most possible people when I get there.
That seems like it will be the case for most of the Americas, really.
At the same time, there are even fewer visualists that music-focused
people, which means splitting up hurts us even more. It was so huge to in
Spain to be able to really spend time with other visuals folks.
I know this is just one perspective and I can see some of the points of
competing ones, for sure, but personally, it would be a big and
disappointing change.
On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 12:37 PM Evan Raskob <evanraskob_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought that what David just wrote was the idea? No that people couldn't
> travel, but there would be more (maybe closer) places to travel to?
>
> There's always the risk of having too many hubs an splitting up he crowd
> too much, but given how widespread the community is an how hard/expensive
> it can be to travel halfway around the world it seems like there could be a
> few more local hubs?
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 5:01 PM Ogborn, David <ogbornd_at_mcmaster.ca> wrote:
>
>> Perhaps people still could travel to particular hubs though, if they want
>> and are able? Even for those who want to get out of their local scene, they
>> might then have a choice of where they would like to go for the conference.
>>
>> -D
>>
>> On Apr 30, 2019, at 11:50 AM, Sarah Groff-Palermo <
>> sarah.groff.palermo_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I don't think preemptively deciding for people that they shouldn't travel
>> is best for our community. It is a lot easier when you live in Europe than
>> elsewhere to say "don't fly but you'll still meet people."
>>
>> Leaving aside all the arguments about whether individual action is even a
>> plausible response to the crisis, I think letting people choose how they
>> want to offset their travel is reasonable.
>>
>> Scenes are already incredibly insular; I would hate to see the one
>> mechanism that seems to exist to push at that disappear.
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 11:19 AM Evan Raskob <evanraskob_at_gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Is it worth taking this discussion to the new forum, alex? It seems like
>>> it might be better for conversation.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 4:13 PM Alex McLean <alex_at_slab.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sure, but this is an existential crisis.
>>>>
>>>> I agree though that cultural exchange is important, and potentially
>>>> part of the solution rather than problem. So we have to be imaginative
>>>> and practical in coming up with something that fits best for our
>>>> community.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 at 15:47, Sarah Groff-Palermo
>>>> <sarah.groff.palermo_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > Eh, honestly, I can see the people in my city all the time. While I
>>>> understand the reasons, I'd be pretty disappointed with a distributed ICLC.
>>>> To me the whole point is to meet the bigger community.
>>>> >
>>>> > On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 10:39 AM Tom Karches <tkarches_at_gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Going along with this should be an effort to encourage
>>>> geographically local groups to form. Which makes the entire community
>>>> stronger. Local community is important.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Tom
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 3:40 AM Alex McLean <alex_at_slab.org> wrote:
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Anyone interested in hosting a 'hub' as part of a future,
>>>> distributed
>>>> >>> edition of ICLC? The idea being to reduce impact on the environment
>>>> >>> and make the conference more accessible to people who can't
>>>> >>> afford/spare the time for long haul flights. Should be a lot easier
>>>> >>> than hosting a whole ICLC.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Let me know if you'd like to join a discussion exploring this idea
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> cheers
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> alex
>>>> >>>
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