Donations - RFC

[Jeremy White]

> I just a did a quick search and found that airfare to Cyprus is about
> twice that of anywhere in western Europe.  That's about what I would
> expect too.  The cheapest flights from North America are generally
> into London, Paris, Amsterdam, or Frankfurt.  Sometimes Madrid and
> Rome are reasonable too.  Cyprus also adds a fair amount of travel
> time.  Don't get me wrong  - Cyprus would be a cool destination and I
> would love to travel there.  It's also wonderful someone is will to
> try to organize a location other than North America.  However, I'm
> willing to bet a Cyprus location will be such an inconvenient place to
> get to that we'd keep a lot of people away.

I also worry that without anyone 'local' to a proposed conference
that it would be difficult to do it well.

Cheers,

Jer