I too feel the location issue is better discussed in the general list. I have nothing against Vancouver, except that it may be far and expensive (travel wise) for many Europeans. But any location is likely to give relative advantage to some subset of the membership/attendees. If the rotation is meant to be once in "North America", once elsewhere, I'd like to remind that North America includes Mexico, from a strict geographic standpoint, and that the Caribbean is eventually as close (Puerto Rico having in addition special ties with the US, like the Virgin Islands). Both locations (Mexico and Caribbean) offer a lot of suitable resorts. And I certainly cross fingers for Italy to be selected some time soon as it is a paradise for thinking as well as feeding :-) Michel -- ================================================================= Dr. Michel J. Menou Consultant in ICT policies and Knowledge & Information Management Adviser of Somos@Telecentros board http://www.tele-centros.org Member of the founding steering committee of Telecenters of the Americas Partnership http://www.tele-centers.net/ B.P. 15 49350 Les Rosiers sur Loire, France Email: Michel.Menou@wanadoo.fr Phone: +33 (0)2 41511043 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ciber/peoplemenou.php ================================================================== -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.1/272 - Release Date: 01/03/2006