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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/3/2024 5:32 AM, Camiel Vanderhoeven wrote:
> Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2024-10-25, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> Curious.
>>>
>>> Why the "wrong" side of Øresund?
>>>
>>> Because there are still VMS users in Sweden and not in Denmark?
>>
>> I am curious why VSI are so heavily focused on Sweden to the exclusion
>> of other European countries.
> 
> It's certainly a curious discussion that has spun up here :-)
> 
> I fear the reasons to have the bootcamp in Malmö are a lot more mundane 
> than some of the theories I came across here.
> 
> We just organized the first VMS bootcamp since 2017 in the US. For some 
> reasons, we wanted it to be close to our office in Boston:
> 
> - easy access for our engineers to deliver presentations on various topics;
> - easy access for our office staff who did a lot of the organizing, not 
> just during the bootcamp, but also in the weeks leading up to it for 
> preparations.
> 
> These same considerations play a role as we prepare for the first ever 
> VMS bootcamp in Europe. While we have people all over Europe (including 
> Germany, France, and yours truly in the Netherlands), we have offices 
> with a VMS engineering team in three places: Copenhagen (Denmark), 
> Yerevan (Armenia) and Athens (Greece). The team we have in Greece is 
> just getting started, and Yerevan is a little bit more difficult to get 
> to (fewer flights, often at inconvenient times).
> 
> That leaves Copenhagen. Unfortunately, organizing a conference in 
> Copenhagen  would be very expensive, both for us and for attendees. 
> Doing it in Malmö, we can probably cut the cost in half for both, and as 
> Arne said, getting there from the airport takes only a few minutes longer.
> 
> That's about as poetic as I can make it :-)

So the short answer is that the bootcamp is on the "wrong" side of
Øresund because the hotel prices in Copenhagen are legal highway
robbery?

:-)

Arne