Re: las-gnome Bad news update: venue space



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 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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