I had a selfish plan to host wineconf in Los Angeles so my cs130 students, Lei, and my four interns could attend, but I'll understand if people prefer Europe.
How many people on this list would be unable to attend in Amsterdam, and would a video link be of any use? Maybe we could webcast it like we tried in 2002, but with five years of Moore's Law on our side.
I feel like you haven't done your plan justice.
Wasn't the original idea to have 2 (or more?) official Wineconf sites, linked by video conferencing equipment?
That does have challenges; time zone sync is a hard one, for starters. Further, you lose much of the value of the plain old socializing we do (i.e. they don't have video conferencing service in the pubs :-/).
But if it lets a bunch of people get together who wouldn't have otherwise, I don't see how it could be bad. (Okay, I guess if you let troubles connecting a small remote site delay and interfere with a 'main' site, then that could arguably be considered 'bad'; but I think we're assuming a best case scenario...)
Cheers,
Jeremy