Reasoning is pretty logical. +1 for postponing it. Also +1 for doing a North American Summit. On Tue, 2017-08-22 at 12:04 -0700, Nuritzi Sanchez wrote:
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 theweek we want itor else Tuesday - Friday the week of November 13th. - does feel a bit isolated, too bad it's not closer to maincampus. As Imentioned before, main campus is a ~5 min bus ride away ... so we could move the event to Weds Nov 1 - 4 and potentiallytry our luckon the main campus for continued BoFs. There are spaces you canjust walk intowith whiteboards. Or, we may want to do a weekday event only theweek of the13th. Thoughts? ..........................Given that there is a focus on students and student engagementfor this round,being unavailable on weekends and not located on the mainStanford campus willmake it more difficult for students to attend. Was the emphasison studentgroups the driving force behind *choosing* a university, or wasit the other wayaround? ~link_______________________________________________ las-gnome mailing list las-gnome gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/las-gnome_______________________________________________ las-gnome mailing list las-gnome gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/las-gnome
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