International Elma Meeting 2018 in Latvia - interest check

[bene]

Please refer to my earlier post and the reply by @pawq over here viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9675#p258015 for more information. Let me know if that helps.

[abruzzi]

sorry for bad saying but hasnt it been obvious from the very beginning finnerds would be afraid of any nonfin location?

[Lousku]

Mainly theer seemed to be almost no interest from mans who couldn't go to FEM, and liek half the interested people are Finnish, so overall theer's more traveling if it's Latvia.

[ile]

only fin for me cuz im have littel money

[abruzzi]

only fin for me cuz im have littel money

Wasn't Latvia made up to reduce costs also?

[bene]

Wasn't Latvia made up to reduce costs also?

I would estimate that caring to some place in finland is cheaper than going to latvia if you are located in finland.

[kuchitsu]

Personally, I would prefer a "moving meeting" of some kind. You know, with sightseeing around various Finnish cities and stuff. It would be rather disappointing to finally travel outside of Russia only to sit in a wooden house in a nondescript forest for two weeks... No idea how much money an "elma travelers club" would require though.

[pawq]

Yeah, and people would carry their pcs and monitors in their backpacks

[kuchitsu]

Heh, well tbh I don't see why a kuski meet would have to be focused on the game so much (if at all) when we kinda meet in EOL all the time anyway. Seems like there could be many other interesting activities to engage in. But I guess that's not so interesting for fin people. Maybe it would work better on a smaller scale...

[pawq]

I think you'd realise why it's so awesome to play elma together if you were at FEM =) Plus can do a lot of different stuff in the middle of the forest too! We played volleyball, run in the forest, played chess, threw frisbee around, played disc golf at a course nearby, etc =)

[insane guy]

imo the elma meeting experience (in this case FEM) is awesome because everyone can take out of it what they want:
Want to play elma all day? No problem, theres more than you will need
Want to do some outside stuff? Easy, just ask people or start kicking a ball around, others will join for sure.
Want sauna? Just heat it up or learn how to do it by real pros
Want to go hiking or see more of Finland? Just need to find a driver and you're good to go.

This formula most likely applies to other meetings too so I wouldn't need to travel around wherever it is. The social aspect of the meeting is really big. (Maybe a bit annoying for sober people on beer balle day)

As mentioned before I'm all in for having a meeting somewhere else. Understandable that many Finmans wouldn't want to go there because of time/logistics/money. I hope no one would see another meeting as a kind of a rivalry but rather another option to see new stuff and meet new people who wouldn't come to FEM due to various reasons.

Biggest problem prolly is that it would need a brave nom-like man to organize and possibly take some risks.

[Leguiumz]

Hey, are there some news ?

[Zero]

Would be superb to get any info about FEM/LEM asap.

Release the poll results pls

[bene]

Hey, are there some news ?

Most likely IEM will not happen because 8-ball is "getting the impression that half of fin fem attendants wouldnt travel iem for meet so probably orka organize meet that just serves to take away stoke from the main one"

FEM is being disussed in the #fem channel on discord. Currently week 30 sounds likely candidate which is July 20-27 or something go to discord and discuss.