Re: NPW 2010 proposal

On 15 May 2009, at 12:03 , Claes Jakobsson wrote:

> My primary objection to hosting it in Riga is that of the Baltic  
> states are not part (yet) of the Nordic countries nor share our  
> common ancestry or language (sorry for being slightly nationalistic).

Not really true. Estonia has been under both Swedish and Danish rule,  
so has parts of Latvia. Estonian is closely related to Finnish, and  
the Baltic states also have close ties to the Nordic Council.

Anyway, the main point is not where the venue is, but which audience  
it's intended for and who is organizing it. Neil Bauman has arranged  
several Perl cruises, but nobody insisted on calling them Caribbean  
Perl Workshops.

-geir