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.