Re: [Ghm-discuss] GHM in Latin/South America

[Brian Gough]

At Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:32:21 -0200,
Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva wrote:
> I have been thinking about a location for a possible GHM in South
> America. The first idea was to run it along a major event such as FISL,
> in late June. The problem is that FISL is always held in Porto Alegre,
> which has no international connections besides Montevideo and Buenos
> Aires. Domestic flights are not very expensive if booked in advance,
> though (found SAO-POA for R$170, ~€80)
> 
> Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, on the other hand, have cheaper
> connections, but smaller events. What comes to my mind now is CONISLI
> (International Free Software Congress) on 21-22 Oct 2011, in São Paulo,
> but last edition (2009) has been very small and underadvertised.
> 
> I would appreciate a few cents on this, and if it is realistic I should
> start talking to some people organizing these events.

If people are coming from the US it would be useful to check if there
are any other conflicting conferences for those dates.  I used the LWN
calendar for that.  If people are coming internationally it is more
likely they will come from the US I think.