Re: [linux-audio-user] Linux Audio Conference Continent selection

Hi, Thursday, December 7, 2006, 8:34:49 PM, Carmen wrote: c> hey.. does this conference always happen in germany? or is c> there some kind of 'call for continents' and antarctica and c> greenland never enter? The past four years (or rather the first four years), the conference has been organised in Karlsruhe, Germany, thanks to the generous support of the ZKM (Centre for Arts and Media) and the tremendous efforts of Goetz Dipper and Frank Neumann. The upcoming conference is the first to take place in another city, even though still in Germany. It has not yet been decided where LAC2008 will be, and we are open to proposals for this. There are however a few things that we have taken up as our goals for the conference, which is that participance needs to be free, and as accessible as possible for anyone who wants; which means that the whole conference will be streamed (as it has been in the past years) to the internet, both in audio and video, and people not able to physically attend the conference, can attend it virtually, and also participate by asking questions via IRC. The fact that we stream the whole conference, also has a consequence, that we need to hold the conference at a time, where as many people as possible can listen to the stream, which means for Germany, that the Australians maybe have to stay up a bit longer, and the Americans need to get up a bit earlier, but the times are not too awkward. (For those that are physically there, it has the nice advantage that we don't start too early, like some other conferences do...). Added to that, I believe that Australia also has its own LAC, isn't that right? sincerely, Marije Baalman Orga-Team Linux Audio Conference 2007