Overseas

Posted Sep 24, 2008 18:56 UTC (Wed) by mkerrisk (subscriber, #1978) [Link]

Hmm. I was talking very specifically about US-based developers. I had thought that, in that context, "overseas" would be pretty clear.

To my mind it was crystal clear. I think you'd have to be actively looking for US-centrism to find it in your article.

As far as we can tell, there are more LWN readers outside of the US than within. I spend a good part of every year going to those readers. We all work very hard to adopt a perspective beyond the US - something that, shall we say, people raised in this country are not normally encouraged to do. I am sorry if you didn't like my phrasing there. I can try to do better - I guess one must use absolute coordinates at all times, even when the origin has been made explicit - but it's hard to feel like this was all that big a mistake.

Hard to see how it was any mistake at all, actually. Keep up the great work Jon.

Posted Sep 24, 2008 20:07 UTC (Wed) by dark (subscriber, #8483) [Link]

Hmm. I did find it confusing, but not US-centric. I was confused because you went from "a feeling among certain developers that becoming the next Dmitry Sklyarov would not be a fun way to spend the rest of the year" to "There is a certain appeal to overseas events". So I thought you were comparing the appeal of overseas events with the risk of traveling to the US -- in order words, looking at it from the point of view of developers like Alan Cox. It took me a few tries to then make sense of the rest of the second paragraph.