<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Harshad Oak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:harshad@rightrix.com">harshad@rightrix.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
IMHO wouldn't sending someone to Mumbai to receive a speaker be going too far.<br><br>With due respects & irrespective of the profile of the speaker, the conference is far bigger than any speaker and all speakers are just as important for the success of a conference.<br>
<br>Paying too much attention to one foreign speaker kind of devalues the conference brand, sends the wrong message to other speakers and IMHO is an 'under-developed country' way of doing things.<br><br>Having said that, I am not writing this to open an extended discussion on the point. <br>
I am fine & will support whatever the call is on this.<br></blockquote><div><br>Harshad and others<br><br>I would suggest lets go ahead and make these arrangements - he is after all not only highly respected but also someone who is coming down from a far further distance to support us and further our benefits. I'll make the arrangements.<br>
<br>Dhananjay<br>
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