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Sent to a colleague in Brazil late this evening
Hi Rosangela,
I'm at a sakai meeting in california. Today the programmers announced they would have their final meeting in cambridge, England.
The designers need to respond, so over dinner we brainstormed. At first Florence, Italy led the nominations. But Europe has already started picking up Sakai. Asia is just too too these days, so we decided South America had to be our destination. At first Chile and Argentina were proposed because of their wine growing regions and skiing.
But Brazil! The open source capital of the world! It must be Brazil! Since the people around the table were 40% from California, 40% from the American Midwest and 20% from Massachusetts, we had only hazy knowledge of Brazil's cities so we had to limit it to the country in general.
It was only the wine talking. We'll probably meet somewhere dull (like Baltimore). But interaction designers agree, Brazil is just the coolest place in the world these days. Thought you should know.
Ben