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No southern hemisphere city? :( Why we down here are always forgotten?

by speeder 13y ago

jacques_chester 13y ago
Annoying, isn't it? Google has offices in multiple southern hemispheric cities -- still no "Summer of Code" for half of the planet. I should however single out AWS. Amazon have two sales engineers here in Perth. Perth, of all places! Kudos, Amazon.
- youngerdryas 13y ago
  Earth's northern hemisphere contains most of the planet's land, and roughly 90% of its human population. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Hemisphere‎ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Hemisphere‎
  - jacques_chester 13y ago
    Oh, good point. There's only twice as many of us as there are Americans.
    - youngerdryas 13y ago
      You can't blame your location on the planet on the Americans.
- glurgh 13y ago
  Perth, of all places! How far the legendary galactic center of .sigs must have fallen, if even its own residents disparage it so! http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/afw/#perth http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/afw/#perth
  - cbetta 13y ago
    I'd love to do Perth. Good tech scene there?
    - jacques_chester 13y ago
      Small but enthusiastic. We have a sprinkling of tech service / consulting firms and startups, two VCs and some meetup groups, but that's about it. Realistically, any such contest held in the Southern hemisphere would be held in Sydney, maybe Auckland or Wellington and maybe, maybe, Cape Town.
      - cbetta 13y ago
        Again would love to do it. Will keep it in mind for next year. I mainly was wondering re Perth as I have family there :)
cbetta 13y ago
We hope to get around to that next year. Not forgotten, just a lack of resources :)
- 3825 13y ago
  Lack of resources is rarely a problem. I remember a teacher tell me that "not enough time" is rarely an excuse for not doing homework because at every waking moment we're prioritizing one task over others. Thus, companies do not lack people or money. They are deliberately prioritizing the rest of the world over you.
  - seraphimserapis 13y ago
    That really is not true. This year's edition scaled up from 1 event to 10. We want to take care of each event and make it awesome and not just organize a ton of events that are not fun at all.
sorich87 13y ago
In fact, almost all the World was forgotten, they have only Europe and USA cities. :(

No southern hemisphere city? :( Why we down here are always forgotten?

by speeder 13y ago

No southern hemisphere city? :( Why we down here are always forgotten?

Annoying, isn't it? Google has offices in multiple southern hemispheric cities -- still no "Summer of Code" for half of the planet. I should however single out AWS. Amazon have two sales engineers here in Perth. Perth, of all places! Kudos, Amazon.

youngerdryas 13y ago
Earth's northern hemisphere contains most of the planet's land, and roughly 90% of its human population. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Hemisphere‎ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Hemisphere‎
- jacques_chester 13y ago
  Oh, good point. There's only twice as many of us as there are Americans.
  - youngerdryas 13y ago
    You can't blame your location on the planet on the Americans.
glurgh 13y ago
Perth, of all places! How far the legendary galactic center of .sigs must have fallen, if even its own residents disparage it so! http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/afw/#perth http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/afw/#perth
- cbetta 13y ago
  I'd love to do Perth. Good tech scene there?
  - jacques_chester 13y ago
    Small but enthusiastic. We have a sprinkling of tech service / consulting firms and startups, two VCs and some meetup groups, but that's about it. Realistically, any such contest held in the Southern hemisphere would be held in Sydney, maybe Auckland or Wellington and maybe, maybe, Cape Town.
    - cbetta 13y ago
      Again would love to do it. Will keep it in mind for next year. I mainly was wondering re Perth as I have family there :)

cbetta 13y ago

We hope to get around to that next year. Not forgotten, just a lack of resources :)

3825 13y ago
Lack of resources is rarely a problem. I remember a teacher tell me that "not enough time" is rarely an excuse for not doing homework because at every waking moment we're prioritizing one task over others. Thus, companies do not lack people or money. They are deliberately prioritizing the rest of the world over you.
- seraphimserapis 13y ago
  That really is not true. This year's edition scaled up from 1 event to 10. We want to take care of each event and make it awesome and not just organize a ton of events that are not fun at all.

sorich87 13y ago

In fact, almost all the World was forgotten, they have only Europe and USA cities. :(