<div dir="ltr">China would still have failed, but we would have known about it [and, hopefully, acted] sooner.<div><br></div><div>-mpg</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Dan Ames <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dan.ames@byu.edu" target="_blank">dan.ames@byu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Again from the sidelines... It would be an interesting exercise to conceptualize how having a single professional conference organizing company would have/have not made a difference with the failed voyage of FOSS4G to China in 2012. - Dan</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">**********************************************************************</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Daniel P. Ames, Ph.D., P.E.</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div>