[Info-vax] openvms-ng cancelled ?

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2023-07-28 kl. 18:03, skrev Tom Wade:
> On 2023-07-25 13:53, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> Den 2023-07-25 kl. 13:25, skrev Ian Miller:
> 
>> Put it into Copenhagen or such with a more central location to possible 
>> OpenVMS users. Croatia is nice from a vacation point of view, but maybe 
>> not the actual area there this event was planned.
>>
>> It might not be lack of interest for an OpenVMS event in general, just 
>> that this one was a bit "off" for many OpenVMS users.
> 
> This is precisely why I didn't go in the end, even though I would be keen 
> to meet up at an OpenVMS event again.  The location was an isolated tourist 
> location (great for a holiday), but cheap flights to nearby airports didn't 
> operate every day of the week, which would mean staying three or more extra 
> days.  Also, getting from Venice to there would be a costly car rental or 
> ridiculously pricey coach or limo service (location was not on any rail 
> service).
> 
> If the event was in Paris, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Brussels, Milan or 
> even a city in the US East coast, I'd have happily travelled from Ireland, 
> and I would expect many other people would too.
> 
> It would be a pity if it were concluded the lack of interest applied to 
> OpenVMS in general.
> 
> Tom Wade
> tom dot wade at tomwade dot eu
> 

Well, even Split or Dubrovnik would probably have better communication if 
you just had to be in Croatia...