[Info-vax] Why are VSI so focused on Sweden ?

[Subcommandante XDelta]

Perhaps they are avoiding France, due to Gerard "Asterix" Calliet, and his band of fiesty, plucky, gallant, Gauls, with gonadic gumption, in the VMSGenerations group, whom have been delivering a Grandparental Masterclass in Oeuf Husbandry, for going on a decade, in terms of industry self-organisation, and representation, to the VMS eco-system, generally, and in particular to the VMS anglosphere - providing leadership, and North Star navigation, on preferable outcomes for both the VMS eco-system, and the new Romans (VSI). :-)

The sleek, lazy, domesticated, Sverige Vikings, are, perhaps, easier to wrangle.
France has better food and wine, compared to Swedish meatballs, and overpriced beer.

On 29/10/2024 12:21 am, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2024-10-25, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 10/25/2024 2:29 PM, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
>>> On 10/25/2024 8:05 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>> Has anything of special interest been revealed at the Bootcamp ?
>>>
>>> There will be a boot camp in Malmo, Sweden next May, and another boot 
>>> camp next year in the US around this same time next year.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>>
>> Curious.
>>
>> Why the "wrong" side of Øresund?
>>
>> Because there are still VMS users in Sweden and not in Denmark?
>>
>> (no practical impact - from Copenhagen to Malmö is just 38 minutes
>> by train - and it is just 23 minutes from the airport to Malmö
>> compared to the 15 minutes to Copenhagen)
>>
> 
> I am curious why VSI are so heavily focused on Sweden to the exclusion
> of other European countries.
> 
> I know of the Swedish origins of VSI's backer, but even so and with all
> other things being equal, I would have expected it to be held in a more
> central European country such as Germany or Austria in order to make
> it easier for much more of Europe to attend.
> 
> Is the remaining European VMS userbase really so heavily weighted to a
> single smaller (by population) Northern European country instead of being
> spread out more evenly across Europe ?
> 
> $ set response/mode=good_natured
> 
> At least they didn't decide to hold it in Bodø (or whatever the Swedish
> version of that is). :-)
> 
> Simon.
>