Re: [guadec-list] GUADEC Core Schedule announced

[Paul Cooper <pgc openadvantage org>]

Hi Daniel,

----- "Daniel Glassey" <wdg debian org> wrote:
[snip]
> Hope it's not too late but just a quick thought that just occurred to
> me. Why are the core days Tue-Thur instead of Mon-Wed or Wed-Fri?
> Surely it will be easier for people to take time off work tp be there
> for the weekend beforehand or after than taking time off in the
> middle
> of the week. I'm thinking of people using personal holiday time  to
> go
> there.

The overall dates, 15th-21st are dictated by the availability of the venue and to some extent other conferences, e.g. OSCON is the week after starting 23rd, (and then long after we announced our dates UbuntuLive on the 21st & 22nd which will clash for some people)

We chose to keep the same (successful) pattern from GUADEC 2006 of two warm up days, three core days and two days of after hours stuff. Every option is always going to cause issues for some people - for example last year for me to take part in the Warm up I would have had to take friday as holiday from work to travel, and I had to miss the last half of the final day of after hours to make my flight home. This was all planned and discussed before Xmas and given that we've now got a cracking keynote line up committed to these dates it's too late for us to change.

Regards,

Paul
> Regards,
> Daniel
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