In reply to Sarah Gooding.

I would have thought that with 182 applications to choose from that picking the country that has a long standing record of human rights abuses and one that is subject to Worldwide economic sanctions is at best clumsy and at worst crass, irrespective of your own personal views about open source software.

I too would like to see a thriving community in North Korea, it might divert their minds away from nuclear armageddon and hacking their neighbours computer systems. Who knows maybe Assad might stop murdering his own people in Aleppo if he felt the warm glow of a Word Camp in Damascus.

Why not give a spin next year and see what happens.