Re: Call for hosts for GUADEC 2009



On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 17:38 +0300, Quim Gil wrote:
> ...Being in Summer...

This has been mentioned elsewhere, but not in this thread: the middle of
summer is high season for air travel to Europe from North America and
elsewhere and as a result tickets are much more expensive.

Over the last 4 years of GUADECs we have shifted from mid-late May (no
problem) to early July (the only dates that are harder to travel are
religious holidays).

If keeping the costs down is a factor, then perhaps some attempt should
be made to return the conference forward in the calendar a bit.  Too
late for 2008, of course, but something we may want to consider for
2009.

Otherwise, if we're not worrying about budgets, then by all means.
European summers are lovely.

AfC
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