Re: las-gnome Bad news update: venue space

[Nuritzi Sanchez <nuritzis stanfordalumni org>]

Ok, after reading everyone's opinions + talking to Cosimo, here's my recommendation (and reasoning below): 

Recommendation: Let's postpone LAS GNOME to Spring of 2018. We should consider having an open bid process for it internationally. 

If there's interest in doing a North American Summit, we could do it in November over Veteran's Day (Nov 10 - 12th), and I can talk to Endless to see if we can donate space for it here in SF. 

Should we do a vote on this? If so, then here it is:

VOTE: Postpone LAS GNOME this year (your +1 means not having it this year). 

Sadly, I'm +1

Best,

Nuritzi

Why postpone LAS GNOME:  

• Venue fell through, the new option is not ideal either in location (a bit isolated) nor timing (weekend).
  
  
• Website update hasn't progressed. Haven't seen any movement on archiving the old website and setting up a new one. 
  
  
• Too tight of a timeline to get great attendance.
  
  
• If we actively plan for Spring of 2018, we can approach sponsors at the beginning of their funding cycle.

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Adelia Rahim <adeliarahim gmail com> wrote:

Nuritzi, thanks for your effort especially on the venue. It is quite unfortunate that that happened.

It does sound like SLAC is a little isolated, with the clearance requirements too, so it may deter last-minute walk-ins. Even if they have a few other pros as you listed, I still feel that we would benefit more from postponing the event to next year; we’ll have more time for practically everything — participants’ travel planning/sponsorship from Foundation (if applicable), call for talks, venue options, sponsorships (!).

That said, if we still want to have some sort of event, a hackfest would be more appropriate — informal, casual, basically less logistics to figure out in a very short time frame.

> On 22 Aug 2017, at 6:36 AM, Link Dupont <link sub-pop net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2017-08-21 at 22:40 -0700, Nuritzi Sanchez wrote:
>> The not as good:
>> - unavailable on weekends. It is available Weds - Friday the week we want it
>> or else Tuesday - Friday the week of November 13th.
>> - does feel a bit isolated, too bad it's not closer to main campus. As I
>> mentioned before, main campus is a ~5 min bus ride away
>>
>> ... so we could move the event to Weds Nov 1 - 4 and potentially try our luck
>> on the main campus for continued BoFs. There are spaces you can just walk into
>> with whiteboards. Or, we may want to do a weekday event only the week of the
>> 13th.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>> ..........................
>
> Given that there is a focus on students and student engagement for this round,
> being unavailable on weekends and not located on the main Stanford campus will
> make it more difficult for students to attend. Was the emphasis on student
> groups the driving force behind *choosing* a university, or was it the other way
> around?
>

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