Hi Adnan, It's good to see some news from the Bosnian team; as you mention, it would be a good idea to have a full (global) meeting soon to update everyone on local arrangement progress, now that the international team members have hopefully had time to recover after DebConf10.
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Adnan Hodzic <ad...@foolcontrol.org> wrote: > today I announced official dates when DebConf11 will be held, which are: > > DebCamp: 25th – 31st July 2011 > DebConf: 1st - 7th August 2011 And on the blog post itself, you also say, "We encourage you to arrive one day earlier (24th July for DebCamp, and 31st July for DebConf), final departure date will be 8th August.", so we get Sunday 24 July: DebCamp arrival day Sunday 31 July: last day of DebCamp/DebConf arrival day Monday 1 August: first day of DebConf Sunday 7 August: last day of DebConf/last night of sponsored accommodation Monday 8 August: DebConf departure day I'm slightly worried about the DebConf dates there, for two reasons. I mention them now as it's not too late yet to adjust the dates we advertise to attendees within the block of time (without necessarily needing to change facilities bookings): 1. Having departure on the Monday gives a risk that we end up needing to pay for an extra night of sponsored accommodation for many people (if they don't shift their arrival day back to match) -- how firm are your promises of government funding for the accommodation? 2. Many DebConf attendees want to reduce the number of days they take off work, and so prefer to travel on weekends. Even when we've officially finished on a Sunday, many attendees have left on the Saturday. Having the official departure day on a Monday would seem to make this worse, as on the schedule above people who leave on Saturday will miss two out of six DebConf days (unless the Day Trip day is put on Saturday or Sunday, but that's not ideal itself). Bear in mind that there will be some ground transport time to reach an international airport, so attendees may be leaving earlier in case the bus/train/whatever is late to the airport, in addition to the time for their flight(s) themselves. What are the views of others on the list? Would it make more sense to advertise DebConf arrival and departure weekend to weekend? -- Moray _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
