Re: Lua Workshop 2012 in Toulouse, France

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> It's now been a month or so since the last discussions around the
> organization of the Lua Workshop 2012.
> It seems there was kind of a weak consensus of the Toulouse location
> in general, with a few people being concerned with the co-location
> with another event. As I said already, having the workshop as part
> of a larger conference is for the best IMO: more visibility, better
> facilities, … while keeping the ability to have "private" Lua social
> events and stuff… For people worried by the date, I don't think late
> November would statistically mean bad weather vs. something earlier in
> fall.
> 
> In order to move forward on this topic, I'd like to propose to the
> community to start taking in charge the organization of the event
> for the 24th and/or 25th of November. We need to start looking for
> sponsors and stuff and TBH, the sooner the better.
> If there's no consensus by the end of May, I think we'll have to skip
> the Toulouse opportunity for this year :)
> 
> Looking forward to having your feedback

We think the Toulouse proposal very atractive, but we would prefer
the workshop in the US this year, if possible, as it will be four
years since the last workshop in the US. (Of course the "if possible"
seems a big "if".)

-- Roberto