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Maui looks just New Zealand...except it is warm every day...  in 
fact I took almost no pictures when I went to NZ because it looked 
like my back yard.  


In the same day on Maui you can see snow, dessert, a dormant volcano, 
one of the most powerful computers in the world, swim with dolphins, 
tutrtles and whales, surf, shower in a waterfall, eat food all day 
picked directly off trees, and sleep under the stars...

The second day you can do even more :)

Reichart - that sounds better than landscape in Avatar :-)

I saw Avatar here in Maui, many people came out commenting that it 
was like seeing their backyard in a movie...

:-) sounds tempting :-)

Reichart... do you need to *persuade* people to come to Maui? I assumed 
you had to keep them away...

Aren't there dinosaurs there? I saw that in a movie once. :-)

You're mistaken

Why don't we meet here in Italy, expecialli in Sicily, Catania, under 
the volcano ? I can convince the university to give an conference 
hall ! :-)

NZ is the only country with living dinosaurs

They are called Tuataras

Is Cantani near Pompeii?

reichart, maui is for holiday, new zealand for living ;-) and btw 
 kauai is beautifull as well...

No, Catania is in Sicily, udner the Etna Volcano and near Taormina.

One day, once we rebollers become rich, we buy some nice piece of 
land ourselves. It will be renamed to Reui ... and new GUI system 
will be called the same name :-)

I just don't know if it will happen this life, or I will have to 
wait for my next incarnation :-)

Buy an island,build a small country on the island, call it the United 
States of Rebol,

GiuseppeC: If etna errupts that day there will be more rebol in the 
world :)

Etna erupts from time to time, it is not an explosive one and never 
much dangerous. However there are low intensity earthquakes too....

How about a "virtual live" Devcon? Everyone can  have a choice of 
 several locations which will both have a physical gathering aspect 
as well as a connected virtual one.  Else Carl can decide and we 
live with it - We're all used to that paradigm aren't we? :-)   That 
being said, Reichart has been suggesting Maui for some time now. 
 Perhaps it's time.

meeting in person makes it a different experience... we meet virtually 
every day... to me its the main point of the devcons.

What about using YouTube for a remote delayed conference ?

The point is to have different meeting places that  are  "in person" 
and then all connected for the "virtual" part. Actually we've always 
had virtual access at the Devcons but not multiple meeting places. 
I say this because that may make it easier for all to meet.

as I said, the point IS to meet the people you can't normally meet 
because they are far away.  ;-)


thing is I know not everyone can attend for a variety of reasons... 
which is why its usually held in nice places, so it doubles as a 
vacation.


we could schedule virtual conferences every few months.. but they 
aren't the same as devcons.

well I sure can't go anywhere unless it's in near proximity of our 
country.. Praga would be that luckily :) ..


I also think virtual meetings could happen every once in a while.. 


remote delayed conference .. I never thought of something like that 
but it's actually an interesting concept :) . It would also produce 
video "serries" about rebol

(I mean the option of Praga is a lucky coincidence)

praga?

In Poland I think.

ahh  yess... hehe different spelling  :-)

Yeah, I thought it was Prague at first.

Praga is same is Prague in some languages

ups, sorry :)

Max - why I agree that live devcon is an absolute preference, I also 
think that some even as once Nick A. (or who organised it?) done, 
could have some possitive effects too. You still have to prepare 
for it, find your free time to join, and I think that we might enjoy 
it ...

Prague would be nice

though this year I doubt i could make it

Prague was supposed to happen in May, but was cancelled/postponed, 
with no new term set ...

Prague is my second choice (after Maui) :)

Perhaps we need a voting mechanism

I might be more complex, since for example, while we vote on X, some 
might not be willing to go to any place other than X, or even Y. 
 Where as some people would be cool going to Z as well.

So for example, I will vote Maui, then Prague (depending on the season). 
 But if it turned out to the be NZ, or NY, I might still go.

I might be -> It might be... LOL

Well Freuded. :-)

this reminded me, there should be some reb/altme map where you could 
point yourself into so we can see where we all are location wise 
.. we did this in indiegamer community and it was cool.. Then you 
can see if you can meet locally.. what was that webapps name..?

we have one on wave

And Chris ? did one a while ago

<Perhaps we need a voting mechanism>
Or at least a way of showing preferences.
An AltME checklist could be a starting point.

it was frappr.com but it seems it's doesn't offer free maps for communities 
any more.. looks somewhat in havoc

but the map still exist: http://www.frappr.com/rebol

http://www.mapservices.org/myguestmap/map/rebolers

aha, there is already a frappr map? :) .. the huge banner on the 
top of page it says something about starting to charge.. well I created 
the mapservices which is free.. you can add yourself on it

Graham: I did, not sure where I put it...

speaking of prague, Anthony Bourdain had a great episode on it