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From Tom's recent blog I read:
- inode0 suggested that it would be better if the scheduled part of
Flock ended on the weekend, so we are strongly considering August 7 - 13, 2013 for the dates (August 12 and 13 would be optional "hackfest days" with no assigned schedule in advance).
I just want to be clear this wasn't my suggestion really. My concern is that full participation with travel on both ends would require a contributor in NA to likely take 7 full days of vacation from work to attend the entire conference. For people coming from other regions it would probably be even more.
The ideal timing of this from my perspective would be a 7 day block running Sunday through Saturday, leaving weekend days on both ends for travel and "only" requiring 5 full days of vacation to attend. That is still a lot of vacation time but I think it is a lot easier to get one full week off than it is to get any longer time off.
Anyway, this isn't something I want to nag about or whine and complain about until it suits me better. I just want to be clear about what my concern really is. I'm happy to try anything and see how it works.
The thing is - you can never make everyone happy when you plan such a long event. If you schedule travelling on weekends, employed people would loose theirs weekend they are not paid for, even I accept we should take care more about people who need vacation to attend. Not everyone is so dumb as I am to spend my PTO days to attend conference where I do my job ;-)
The two last days are optional, from my observation from other week long contributor's conferences - only the real hardcore core of people stays there and productivity suffers too - 7 days is at least for me too much to concentrate and survive in row... Don't understand it as we should skip it, it's more like - if it suits you better, you can probably skip these too as nothing cool usually happens (and maybe I'm wrong now and in the last two day we all decide to switch to Ubuntu ;-).
Jaroslav
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