[rrg] RRG meeting in Malta?

[Lixia Zhang]

On Nov 3, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Tony Li wrote:

>
>
> |> Note that we need critical mass here, not just majority.
> |
> |Can we assume that a 'no' vote means "I can't come" rather than
> |"A meeting would be evil" ?
>
>
> Does it really matter?  ;-)
>
> Presumably, if the person feels that the meeting is evil, then they  
> won't
> show up.  All invective past that point is wholly irrelevant.
>
> Conversely, however, I would not assume that a yes vote will imply  
> that the
> person will show up.

that sounds a bit odd to me: how would one tell how many "yes" are  
show-ups, and how many are not?

(one could always hypothesize extreme cases: out of 30 yes's, 3 really  
meant showing up :(

2 more points:

1/ I share Scott's wish of making the decision after Minneapolis,  
though I see the point Tony made (planning ahead, etc)

2/ the least to say about the interim dates and location is that, as a  
*personal* view, it is prohibitively expensive for US academic people  
to attend (dates, travel time, travel expenses)
and such difficulties could impact participation, hence the outcome.

Lixia