> Some media is starting to pick up this dates are definitive, for the > discussion here I see they are not final. Adnan, what do you think > of updating your blog post and write 'tentative' dates ?
Okay. > In any case, when the dates are definitive for real, please write > an email to debian-publicity@ to make an official announcement. =) Will do, I'll let you all know once I do so :) Adnan On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Ana Guerrero <a...@debian.org> wrote: >> 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 >> > > Some media is starting to pick up this dates are definitive, for the > discussion here I see they are not final. Adnan, what do you think > of updating your blog post and write 'tentative' dates ? > > In any case, when the dates are definitive for real, please write > an email to debian-publicity@ to make an official announcement. =) > > >> 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? >> > > I share your concerns, so far, the best formula has been from Sunday to > Saturday. In DC9 we experimented a bit with the dates, this time > starting in a Friday and we ended with a lot of people arriving in Saturday. > > Since I have still at hand the data from DC10: > > ==================== > Departure date: > 2010-08-01 2 > 2010-08-02 2 > 2010-08-03 4 > 2010-08-04 2 > 2010-08-05 1 > 2010-08-06 11 > 2010-08-07 74 > 2010-08-08 167 > None 145 > > Last day of talks was 2010-08-07 and still a lot of people departed that > day. "None 145" means people who did not set departure dates, since we did not > need that for people not staying at Columbia Housing. > > Ana > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Debconf-team mailing list > Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org > http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team > _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
