From pete at petertodd.org Mon Aug 21 11:06:49 2023 From: pete at petertodd.org (Peter Todd) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 11:06:49 +0000 Subject: [Lightning-dev] LN Summit 2024 Organization In-Reply-To: <CALZpt+Gy2CM2HRdOfNDHtxj9tZr-yY13w=13eg1E4qa+Xxjx0Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <CALZpt+Hev9Z2ZXanCeqiG_g5q-xuhP_CYCv=G5wW2F+7Kqb2wg@mail.gmail.com> <CALZpt+Gy2CM2HRdOfNDHtxj9tZr-yY13w=13eg1E4qa+Xxjx0Q@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <ZONFSfwrYNrE6qu+@petertodd.org> On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 12:02:39AM +0100, Antoine Riard wrote: > As a backup plan, I think we could consider countries like Morocco or > Algeria, which given current composition of the organization committee is > straightforward due to the french-speaking communities, or South Africa, > which is itself beautiful and where they're doing Bitcoin events [1], > though this latter is very far far away in term of international travel > logistic. I asked a native Algeria friend of mine what she thought about holding a conference in Algeria: No. No. No. no No conference in Algeria It's not a tourist friendly destination!! It's an high-violence Islamic country where much of the population has fundamentalist beliefs, and it does not have a significant tourism industry. Visiting as a solo female is a sketchy thing to do. > Note for Ghana, from a quick look it sounds like a visa will be required > for all Schengen, US and Commonwealth passport holders will need a travel > visa. ECOWAS passport holders sound to be exempted. Visa's are really annoying to deal with. They aren't always granted, and tend to require the applicant to pre-arrange travel (incurring expenses) well in advance of the conference. I would rule out anywhere with non-trivial visa requirements for the super-majority of attendees. -- https://petertodd.org 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/attachments/20230821/78480560/attachment.sig>