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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Why are VSI so focused on Sweden ?
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 13:21:53 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-10-25, Arne Vajhøj <arne@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.

-- 
Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.