On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 03:35:23PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Tom Callaway
<tcallawa(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On 12/16/2015 03:15 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> In the Council meeting this week, we noted that Flock lands in late
>> August/early September and this is high tourist season in Europe. It
>> is also a time when many take vacation. This drives prices up across
>> many of the regions.
>>
>> We wondered aloud if we could shift Flock to dates outside of this
>> window. The two most likely alternatives would be sometime in July or
>> sometime in November. We also noted that we should try and avoid
>> conflicting with any other major open source conference, and that July
>> and November seem to fit within that small goal. There are pros and
>> cons with each date window, but we wanted to see how feasible people
>> thought this would be.
>
> DebConf and GUADEC are in July.
Yes, but the overlap between DebConf and Flock is likely small. If we
schedule Flock carefully, we might be able to draw attendees
before/after GUADEC without incurring additional international flights
for them (at the cost of extended time away).
> There are a number of "Europe" versions of major conferences in November,
notably:
>
> Velocity
> Fluent
> RubyConf
> DockerCon
>
> Also, the Paris Open Source Summit (formerly Open World Forum) is likely
> to be in November again.
>
> That doesn't mean we can't have Flock in July or November. Of the two, I
> actually think November is a better fit for our target audience.
I would tend to agree, but I'm not set on either timeframe either.
I should have noted that aside from the tourism aspect with the late
Aug/early Sept timeframe, it is often difficult for many in the US to
travel with it being the start of school year activities. Of course,
we might run into US vacation conflicts in July as well.
I've heard from some contributors in the past that having the event in
the summer is what allowed them to go. because they could build it
into vacation time or mandatory PTO at work. But none of that changes
that any time frame is going to inconvenience some people. We have to
pick the right time frame based on what will make the event most
successful.
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